https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54271
John Broughton <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #2 from John Broughton <[email protected]> --- Grouping commands under a "Text format" drop-down menu is a natural (obvious, intuitive) way to collect commands that are rarely used. For example, bolding of text, in articles, is typically done ONCE (in the lead paragraph, by the author of the article), and then never again. A "Text format" drop-down menu would take all of the following off of the main toolbar line, leaving space for (at the moment) everything else: * Bold * Italic * Superscript * Subscript * Programming language * Underline * Strikethrough * Clear formatting Putting all these under a single menu has the advantage of - in the future - allowing projects to control which options are visible in which namespaces. For example, on the English Wikipedia, strikethrough almost certainly should not be a (visible) user choice in mainspace (articlespace), nor should underlining. It's important, for SPEED, that frequently used functions are immediately accessible. Articles should have lots of footnotes, a fair number of templates (particularly for footnotes), and at least a couple of images. Putting the related commands into a drop-down menu, as opposed to having them directly on the toolbar, is undesirable: It makes VE less attractive to experienced editors (slower to use) and more difficult for new editors (because now they have to be instructed on, and remember, a TWO-step process (menu, select) rather than a one-step process (click), for important things like images and footnotes. -- 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
