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WikiEditor's Search and Replace icon is very similar to VisualEditor's "Switch to visual editing button", which is right next to it
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WikiEditor's "Search and replace" icon is very similar to VisualEditor's "Switch to visual editing button"—both have a pen. They are also right next to each other when WikiEditor's "Advanced" bar is open.

See the screenshot:

עריכת הדף  משתמש Amire80 עורך חזותי nowiki  – ויקיפדיה.png (144×81 px, 1 KB)

I use both visual editing and source editing, and I use both of these WikeEditor's button frequently, and I confuse them all the time.

It would be nice to separate them visually. Changing VisualEditor icon from a pen to something else (an eye?) would be nice, and moving one of the buttons to a different location is a possibility as well.

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I highly doubt that either of these icons will be changed.

The question is not so much whether they will be changed, but whether they should be changed. It's a design question.

"Declined" to me means that you think that they shouldn't be changed.

If the idea is valid, but low-priority, this should remain open.

The question is not so much whether they will be changed, but whether they should be changed. It's a design question.

I don't think keeping tasks around for every possible thing that could or should be done is particularly useful, especially if it seems incredibly unlikely anyone will ever do them.

I don't think either of us have much interest in revert warring on the status of this particular task, so we can leave it at that.

Would this task be ok for projects like GCI, or does it need "our" design people input?

Change 424036 had a related patch set uploaded (by Esanders; owner: Esanders):
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Convert remaining tools to OOUI

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424036

Change 424036 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/WikiEditor@master] Convert remaining tools to OOUI

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/424036