https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54271
Maggie Dennis <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #1 from Maggie Dennis <[email protected]> --- User Pointillist on the English Wikipedia has some really interesting ideas on this subject, posted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Feedback&oldid=573508478#Toolbar_button_priority_proposal Without all the very useful images, he writes (please pardon my clumsy textual effort to reproduce his proposal and check out the link to see it the way it should look): Summary: as discussed above and in bug 54271, the sequence of buttons in the toolbar isn't appropriate for typical article editing activities. The current toolbar gives too much priority to hard-coded formatting such as Bold, Italic, Lists and Indents. As a result: * The most important buttons (e.g. for referencing) are pushed into a secondary position and may even be forced onto the "More" drop-down * Wikilinking is incorrectly associated with formatting * Formatting buttons are divided between the left-end of the toolbar and the "More" drop-down * It isn't immediately clear what "More" is offering I propose that article content buttons should be at the left end and formatting should be at the right end of the toolbar, so something like this: [Undo * Redo * Link * Media * Reference * References * Template * Equation * Paragraph * Clear formatting * Bold * Italic * Superscript * Subscript * Programming language * Unordered list * Ordered list * Reduce indent * Increase indent] If "More" is necessary, it would probably be inserted into the formatting buttons, and the users would expect to find more of them in the drop-down, like this: [Undo * Redo * Link * Media * Reference * References * Template * Equation * Paragraph * Clear formatting * Bold * Italic * Superscript * More] Of course, this is only a starting point. By the way: underscore and strikeout shouldn't be formatting options in the article space, "Page title" isn't necessary as a paragraph style. Thoughts? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
