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VisualEditor single tab popup should keep appearing until you use it
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Description

  1. Visit a wiki with VE single tab enabled, with a user that had recent edits but has no default selected (e.g. brand new user)
  2. start editing
  3. press "back" after the popup about tabs appears (or press Esc, or close the window)
  4. start editing again

Expected behavior: popup reappears
Actual behavior: no popup, figuring out how to change editor is hard

This has been pointed out by multiple power users on huwiki. Reflexive Esc-pressing is a common thing. The menu should either stick around until something is selected, or should be easy to reopen after pressing Esc and should give a visual clue when closed (e.g. animated collapse into a button).

Event Timeline

I'd be OK with only setting the preference/cookie once the user interacted with it, BUT this wouldn't make @Tgr content as expressed, because pressing Escape is a clear user action. I would not be OK with forcing an intentionally inacessbility-hack of forcing the user to use a mouse rather than their keyboard to make it go away.

FWIW I don't think pressing Esc is necessary. I missed the popup because of FOUC on pl.wiki, so I just clicked somewhere on the page and happened to notice that I had in fact dismissed that pop-up.

Deskana set the point value for this task to 1.
Deskana moved this task from To Triage to Freezer on the VisualEditor board.
Aklapper changed the task status from Stalled to Open.Nov 3 2020, 10:30 AM

The previous comments don't explain who or what (task?) exactly this task is stalled on ("If a report is waiting for further input (e.g. from its reporter or a third party) and can currently not be acted on"). Hence resetting task status, as tasks should not be stalled (and then potentially forgotten) for years for unclear reasons.

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