[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22455: 3.5 About page

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#22455: 3.5 About page
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 Reporter:  nacin           |       Owner:
     Type:  task (blessed)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Help/About      |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                  |
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Comment (by nacin):

 Thanks Jane, that is great. I am also looking for a higher level review of
 this screen. My take:

  * The screen should focus on three main things: media, media, media.

  * "Attachment page editor" is more of a hidden improvement. "Media"
 should focus squarely on the new media dialog/workflow.

  * Under "Smoother experience," at most, the new color picker should be
 displayed. As Jane pointed out, the TinyMCE buttons are subtle, and people
 are going to notice the button styles as part of a light UI refresh.
 They're UI elements, not features.

  * Twenty Twelve and Retina are both more important than the smoother
 experience. I'd say media, the theme, and retina are the top 3 things of
 this release.

  * The "Better Accessibility" is a bit weird, and the screenshots are not
 very helpful. They apply to relatively few users. Also, it's kind of a
 "Wait, WordPress wasn't already accessible?" issue. It's also one of those
 behind-the-scenes niceties. I think a sentence talking about more device
 support (mobile!) and better accessibility could work well under the
 smoother experience section, sans screenshots.

  * "More Embed support" should be a single item under media, media, media.
 See 3.3's screen for when we added new file formats. I think Twitter in
 3.4 was an exception, not the rule. Also, I don't like the idea (legal
 reasons, as Jane points out, aside) of three third-party for-profit
 company logos taking such prominence in an open source application.

  * Plugin favorites is a fairly hidden feature. If we do a cycle that
 enables you to connect your WordPress.org account and suddenly review,
 rate, and favorite plugins from your dashboard, then it's a huge feature.
 Until then, we should give this somewhat less prominence. (Not sure what
 to pair it up with, though.) I also think this is one of the rare
 instances of it being a good idea to cap check the about page with
 install_plugins. No need to show this to regular users or multisite non-
 super admins.

  * Leaving a note before I forget, the meta query section should also
 mention NOT EXISTS queries.

 This is basically my morning, so I'm going to be working through this.

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