[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21754: Replace QuickPress labels with gray prompt texts

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#21754: Replace QuickPress labels with gray prompt texts
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 Reporter:  tar.gz       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  UI           |    Version:  3.4.1
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 The QuickPress publishing area, that is prominently visible on the main
 Dashboard, has very narrow label fields. They are actually just wide
 enough to hold the English label text ("Title", "Content", "Tags").

 In some localized versions of WP, those labels are too short to hold the
 complete strings, so they either overlap or break into several lines. The
 attachments "quickpress-labels-de.png" and "quickpress-labels-fr.png" show
 how bad it looks in German and French (under MacOSX, in FF and Webkit).

 Now every language could override the width with a custom CSS rule, but I
 think there is a much better solution: we could use a prompt text
 ''inside'' the text field, like we already do for the "Title" field on the
 normal post/page editor. This would have two benefits:

 * The whole string will fit in, no matter how long it is.
 * The editing area gets wider, which makes it more convenient to write a
 post.

 In my first mockup (quickpress-improved-01.png), you can see this
 principle applied both for the "Title" and the "Tags" field. My feeling is
 that the main edit box is self-explanatory, since we do the same on the
 post/page editor. But this should certainly be discussed with some UX
 experts.

 I made a second mockup (quickpress-improved-02.png) where I added the
 category dropdown, based on Jane's proposal in #21636. I think that this
 would make the QuickPress box much more useful!

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