Lock icon is misleading with Real Time Collaboration enabled

[alinclamba]

With real-time collaboration enabled in WordPress 7.0, multiple users can edit the same post simultaneously.

In the post list, when another user is editing a post:

the UI shows the user's avatar and “X is currently editing”

but also displays a lock icon (Dashicon \f160)

The lock icon suggests that the post is blocked, which is no longer the case, as concurrent editing is allowed.

This creates a mismatch between the UI and actual behavior.

Suggested improvement:

• remove the lock icon entirely, since presence is already communicated via avatar and text

or

• replace it with a more neutral/collaboration-oriented indicator

I also did a quick visual experiment replacing the lock icon with an edit icon (Dashicon \f464) to see how it feels in context.

[sabernhardt]

[62074] just removed the lock icon, as part of ticket:64622. Do you still want to consider additional changes?

[audrasjb]

Removing trunk version as this is not going to be shipped with WP 7.0 but in the next releases.

[adrianduffell]

Moving this ticket to a future release as collaborative editing won't be making it in 7.1 now.