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Provide an API to modify toolbar buttons
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Right now, the docs (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiEditor/Toolbar_customization#Modifying_things) say:

"We don't really have a nice API to modify things, unfortunately"

An API for this would make ProveIt (an extension i work on that does this) cleaner and more reliable. Right now, there seems to be a race condition where sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.

The workaround in the docs does not make clear whether to wrap the modification bind in mw.loader.using( 'ext.wikiEditor.toolbar',. I think not, because then it might be too late when the modifier's (ProveIt's) code runs.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23624

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The existing API seems to allow addition, removal and modification. Perhaps not in the easiest way imaginable, but I doubt introducing a different API makes sense at this point. It's probably more important to ensure the existing and documented methods are stable going forward.