The hover effect is easy to drop - if we are all willing to take the hit on the clutter.

It was sort of an experiment in choosing the lesser of two evils (clutter vs. hidden options), sounds like we need to reconsider.

I think that introducing icons is tricky, it should be done very cautiously.

- Trevor

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Lukas Benedix <benedix@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
I don't like the use of hover in this place. I don't think, that an
essential element for user interaction should be hidden from the user.

If I were an experienced user I would expect the old behavior when I click
on "edit", instead of this another link popps up that sais "edit source"
and disturbs me.

My solution would be moving the [ edit | edit source ] thingy to the
right. That would reduce the clutter in the headings.


Lukas


> On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:30:43 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The team rejected static [edit] [edit source] source, I think
>> reasonably, because of too much clutter in the section headings.
>
> I *still* think this would be the best solution. Come on, it's not that
> cluttering, and it would be a known interface for more experienced editors
> (some gadgets do similar things).
>
> Maybe an A/B test comparing current design to this could be run? I had
> previously implemented this, the abandoned patch is still sitting
> somewhere in gerrit and could be revived.
>
>
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