EditCheck: Remove appearance panel in @breakpoint-desktop-wide
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	bmartinezcalvo
	Jun 17 2025, 10:39 AM

Description

Background

In breakpoint-desktop-wide (1680px screens and larger), the "Appearance" panel is displayed when no checks are visible, then collapses once the checks appear. This creates confusion.

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We need to ensure consistency with the breakpoint-desktop by not displaying the "Appearance" panel expanded while editing. Instead, it should be collapsed under the Appearance icon within the header.

Acceptance criteria (or Done)

The "Appearance" panel is collapsed in both breakpoint-desktop-wide and breakpoint-desktop

Details

Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	EditCheck: Make appearance panel behavior consistent across screen sizes	mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor	master	+2 -6

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Status	Assigned	Task
Open	None	T360489 [EPIC] Generate and present edit suggestions at scale
Open	None	T414853 [MILESTONE] Deploy Suggestion Mode as a default-on feature.
Open	None	T404600 [MILESTONE] Run controlled experiment of Suggestion Mode MVP
Open	None	T397744 Address generic Edit Check UX issues
Open	medelius	T397154 EditCheck: Remove appearance panel in @breakpoint-desktop-wide
Resolved	EAkinloose	T378151 Minimize content movement while editing within VE
Resolved	MNeisler	T378036 BASELINE: How do people use Tools and Appearance menus while editing?
Resolved	DLynch	T379443 Hide Vector 2022 Tools and Appearance menus when Edit Check has the potential to activate
Stalled	None	T379444 Update Vector 2022 to support disabling right rail for certain editor workflows
Open	None	T378775 Estimate impact of hiding Tools and Appearance menus by default while editing
Open	None	T380336 Hide Vector 2022 Tools and Appearance menus for people while editing using VE

Event Timeline

bmartinezcalvo created this task.Jun 17 2025, 10:39 AM

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ppelberg added projects: Editing-team (Kanban Board), OKR-Work.Jun 17 2025, 10:58 PM

ppelberg edited projects, added Editing-team; removed Editing-team (Kanban Board).Jun 17 2025, 11:02 PM

ppelberg moved this task from Untriaged to Needs Discussion / Investigation on the Editing-team board.

Discussion offline with @JScherer-WMF in Nov 2024 landed on: we would be hiding Vector 2022's Tools and Appearance menus when entering an edit session with the visual editor with edit check enabled and bring them back once the users return to read mode.

ppelberg added a parent task: T397744: Address generic Edit Check UX issues.Jun 24 2025, 4:36 PM

ppelberg edited projects, added Goal, Editing-team (Kanban Board); removed Editing-team.

ppelberg added a subtask: T378151: Minimize content movement while editing within VE.

ppelberg moved this task from Inbox to Ready to Be Worked On on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Aug 18 2025, 4:48 PM

ppelberg removed a project: Goal.

EAkinloose closed subtask T378151: Minimize content movement while editing within VE as Resolved.Nov 6 2025, 9:00 AM

medelius claimed this task.Dec 16 2025, 6:18 AM

Change #1218816 had a related patch set uploaded (by Medelius; author: Medelius):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] EditCheck: Make appearance panel behavior consistent across screen sizes

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1218816

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Dec 16 2025, 7:23 PM

medelius moved this task from Ready to Be Worked On to Doing on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Dec 16 2025, 7:23 PM

medelius moved this task from Doing to Code Review on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Dec 16 2025, 8:38 PM

medelius moved this task from Code Review to Blocked / Needs More Work on the Editing-team (Kanban Board) board.Dec 18 2025, 3:51 PM

We discussed this in our engineering meeting and the consensus was that this short-term fix may not be the right move right now. Related to a point that Quiddity brought up in Slack about how the tools/appearance menu being completely inaccessible during editing may not be received well by experienced editors. There's a patch ready if we want to move forward, but I figured I'd move this to blocked to discuss.

Blocked on T397154.

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	Jun 17 2025, 10:39 AM

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