[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #27159: Removing TinyMCE buttons to improve user experience

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#27159: Removing TinyMCE buttons to improve user experience
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 Reporter:  hugobaeta    |       Owner:  hugobaeta
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  4.7
Component:  TinyMCE      |     Version:  3.8
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  ui, administration
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:108 hugobaeta]:
 > I think the excuse of testing is being used to avoid making a decision.

 Yeah, this is way I didn't want to post that here. Okay, lets not call it
 "testing", lets call it "observations" :) I did that for my own benefit
 only, to be able to justify to myself the proposed changes.

 I'm going to repeat that again: I really really hope everybody that posted
 a comment here or is "watching" this ticket would do something similar.

 > @azaozz you also mentioned the whole problem of discoverability of the
 kitchen sink, but that does not belong in this ticket and is making this
 conversation even more complicated.

 Well, technically... This ticket is about "Removing TinyMCE buttons to
 improve user experience" so lets remove the Toolbar Toggle (a.k.a. kitchen
 sink) button then! :)

 Joking aside, agree that this belongs in a new ticket. Going to make one
 as soon as we have some means of (really) testing how many users keep the
 second toolbar row always open. If it turns out that most (more than 80%)
 of the users that know about that toolbar have it always open, I think the
 proper action would be to remove that button and have editor with two
 toolbar rows or merge the rows into one row that wraps around (whichever
 looks better in most cases). I'm sure there will be some "very vocal"
 opposition to something like that, but keeping an "almost dead" button in
 the toolbar doesn't make sense.

 > Again, all I'm asking for is three things:
 >
 > - move `formatselect` to first position on top row and remove Heading 1.
 > - remove `alignjustify`
 > - remove `underline`

 Okay, lets do this. Thinking (hoping) that not so many users will be upset
 if we leave the alignment buttons alone.

 What do you think about moving the "Strikethrough" button to the bottom
 row for now, same as in the Calypso editor?

 At the same time as this change I'd also like to commit #38315 (adds the
 `<mark>` element and a "Highlight" button, and #37278 (removes the
 "Unlink" button and changes to the same icon in the inline link toolbar).
 Thinking these three tickets compliment one another.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27159#comment:109>
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