https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66698

--- Comment #9 from Steven Walling <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to MZMcBride from comment #8)
> Okay, so I read <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/110584>. I personally don't
> see a very compelling case for the animation. It seems to be mostly "because
> we can (with CSS)", which I agree is nice and neat, but I'm not sure this
> animation is necessary or helpful... it feels a bit superfluous and
> distracting and, in my opinion, and perhaps mixed with the lack of menu
> re-collapsing on click, it looks a bit broken. On other hand, I mostly use
> Monobook. :-)  Fomafix: in the months since this change was merged, have you
> had any further thoughts about this?

Agreed. 

> If there's to be any animation, perhaps flipping the triangle upside down
> would be better? Though that's typically associated with sorting... so
> perhaps change the icon to a "+" and do something with that? Blergh.

The fundamental problem here is that a chevron like this is not typically used
to representing "pinning" something permanently.[1] Instead, this kind of
downward arrow is usually only to represent opening of a dropdown menu.[2] 

1. http://thenounproject.com/search/?q=pin
2. http://thenounproject.com/search/?q=dropdown

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