Based on user testing, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/User_testing
moving media to the top level toolbar would help users find it more quickly.
According to the editing task survey, it is a somewhat frequently used action.
Media is something we would like to promote users to add to articles.
The media dialogue has recently been improved for a better user experience.
Description
Description
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T90299 Move media to top level icon on toolbar | ||
| Resolved | matmarex | T52227 OOjs UI: Make the toolbar narrower when the window is narrow (responsive layout) | ||
| Open | None | T92315 OOUI: Responsive VE toolbar | ||
| Open | None | T74159 OOUI: Toolbar groups should support sub-groups as items (hierarchical, nested menus) | ||
| Resolved | matmarex | T90815 Implement a way to nest toolbar groups without implementing nesting of toolbar groups |
Event Timeline
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Change 192052 had a related patch set uploaded (by Alex Monk):
Move insert media button to top level toolbar
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Per discussion at the VisualEditor triage meeting, we're removing this until T52227: OOjs UI: Make the toolbar narrower when the window is narrow (responsive layout) and T74159: OOUI: Toolbar groups should support sub-groups as items (hierarchical, nested menus) are fixed.
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Change 192052 abandoned by Alex Monk:
Move insert media button to top level toolbar between cite and structure
Reason:
It sounds like this isn't as straightforward as the task made it look when I uploaded this - abandoning review of this for now, feel free to restore when it's relevant.