[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 johnbillion):

 Replying to [comment:27 nacin]:
 >  * 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.
 I agree that three images here is overkill, but it's difficult to convey
 the various subtle changes across the admin interface in one screenshot.
 If we just have a screenshot of a new color picker it looks like we're
 scraping the barrel for features to list.

 Maybe we should cut the 'Smoother experience' section out entirely and let
 the About screen do its work promoting the bigger new 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.
 I disagree. The retina admin affects a tiny proportion of the user base.
 We should promote the fact that WordPress is working hard to continually
 improve accessibility. I'd hate for it to appear that WordPress favours
 catering for people with $2,000 retina MacBook Pros but gives lower
 priority (or prominence) to accessibility.
 > Also, it's kind of a "Wait, WordPress wasn't already accessible?" issue.
 Well that's correct to an extent. That's why the accessibility
 improvements have been made. They're listed as improvements, not as
 "WordPress is now accessible".
 >  * "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.
 I agree. In my first text draft I used this section to promote the embed
 functionality as a whole, not just the three new providers. Maybe the
 About screen isn't the place to do that.
 >  * Plugin favorites is a fairly hidden feature. {snip} we should give
 this somewhat less prominence.
 If we're going to have an admin pointer on the Add New Plugin screen
 pointing to the Favorites tab then I agree, this doesn't need as much
 prominence on the About page.

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