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Bug 72770 - VisualEditor: Some table editor menus are hard to find
VisualEditor: Some table editor menus are hard to find
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
Editing Tools (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: High enhancement
: VE-deploy-nextup
Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
: design
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2014-10-30 18:38 UTC by Quiddity
Modified: 2014-10-30 18:42 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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2014-10-30 18:38 UTC, Quiddity 		Details
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Description Quiddity 2014-10-30 18:38:59 UTC 
Created attachment 16959 [details]
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(On beta.wmflabs) I had a very hard time finding the table editing menus for Merge cell. I knew they were available, but assumed they would be part of the normal attached-to-the-table menu system.

I also didn't notice the "Content cell" menu appear until it was pointed out to me.

I think it would be more intuitive, to put those controls next to the elements I'm changing, as shown in the mockups at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Table_editor#Version_2
Comment 1 James Forrester 2014-10-30 18:42:16 UTC 
Yeah, I agree. Over-riding the formatting menu is clever but entirely non-obvious, and completely breaks the VE design rule about only disabling, not changing, controls between contexts.
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