Opened 15 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#10818 closed enhancement (worksforme)
Manage Plugins screen UI
Reported by: | janeforshort | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 2.8.4 |
Component: | Plugins | Keywords: | accessibility |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
We'll have a design challenge to address some accessibility and usability issues on this screen, and this ticket will serve as the place for discussion of same (and eventually a patch to implement selected design updates).
Change History (8)
#4
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14 years ago
- Milestone changed from 2.9 to 3.0
Punting to 3.0 due to feature freeze, will plan to open design challenge shortly after 2.9 release.
#8
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11 years ago
- Component changed from UI to Plugins
- Keywords needs-patch plugins removed
- Milestone Future Release deleted
- Resolution set to worksforme
- Status changed from new to closed
No traction in 3 years, closing as worksforme although maybe @jenmylo has some insight into whether the accessibility concerns outlined here were ever addressed?
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There has been discussion of hiding the Action links unless moused over, similar to the links on the Comments page.
I would have no problem with this if the links were the same for every plugin, but it is becoming increasingly common (and this is a GOOD thing!) for plugin authors to add custom Action links. A great example is a custom link to the plugin's Settings page so it doesn't have to be hard-coded into the Description.
This functionality will lose out massively if these links are hidden by default.
So to those who want it, I suggest what has been a common response to specialized requests: make a plugin that auto-hides the Action links, if that's what you want. For most people, they are most useful if visible.
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That being said, I have no problem with removing the "Edit" link. We should not be encouraging people to directly edit plugin files; especially in light of the problems with Auto-Updating over hand-edited plugins.
A properly written plugin should never require the user to edit its files.