[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60992: Plugin management: AJAX plugin activation consequences

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#60992: Plugin management: AJAX plugin activation consequences
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 Reporter:  jeherve                              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  6.5.3
Component:  Plugins                              |     Version:  6.5
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing has-         |     Focuses:
  testing-info needs-design-feedback             |
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Comment (by alanfuller):

 Replying to [comment:73 kevinwhoffman]:
 > If the "Refresh Now" button accomplishes the redirect just by triggering
 the activation hook on the next page load, then we still have an issue of
 user control. Say the user does not refresh the page and instead decides
 they are going to view their Posts, Pages, or any other screen in WP
 Admin. That choice is going to trigger the redirect into an onboarding
 screen they explicitly chose not to visit (which is how WP 6.5.2 behaves
 today). Alternatively if they do choose to "Refresh Now" then the
 expectation is that the current page actually refreshes, not that it it
 ''might'' lead to an onboarding experience depending on which plugin was
 last installed. In an attempt to halfway cater to the use of redirects, we
 now have multiple situations where a user ends up somewhere they didn't
 expect to go.

 This is true, what the 'user' expects is when they hit 'activate'  that
 the plugin 'activates' which from a user persepctive  includes the
 onboarding experience.

 But for technical reasons I don't pretend to understand we can't achieve
 that as reverting is not possible.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60992#comment:76>
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