Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Special characters/reply


 * Change the "<" to an "X" - I would change the current "<" button to an "X" and move it to the top right. The "<" doesn't make sense as it's not inherently attached to any sidebar, so the arrow points at nothing in particular. This is also a problem I have with the Gallery dialog.
 * Moving the dialog like a window - The dialog should be movable by the user as though it was a separate window (e.g. grab the header and drag it elsewhere in the browser.), rather than attached to the location of your cursor in the edit window.
 * To add on to this, I think all of the Insert dialogs should have this functionality, I oftentimes want to look at the picture I'm captioning in the gallery or the text which is located nearby it. However, I can't do this without closing the dialog and then opening it back up again.
 * The dialog is too vertically lengthy - Limit the height of the dialog box vertically and add a scroll bar. The entire box should be visible when it's first opened. Currently, the bar is very long and can go all the way to the bottom of the article in some cases.
 * Change the sections into tabs - It shouldn't look like Wikipedia's section headers, it should be a tabbed interface a la a browser. This would also help with the aforementioned height of the dialog.
 * Add a search bar to the dialog - I'm not sure how this would be done from a technological perspective, but I would assume it's possible to add "tags" of some sort to each symbol. For example, á and other variations of "a" or "A" with accents would be tagged with "A". This way, you can search for a letter (e.g. "a", "c", "e", "i", etc.) and it will bring up all variations of that letter. For symbols with actual titles, like the tilde (~), these would be tagged with their actual name. The tags wouldn't be visible to the user, they'd simply allow symbols to be searched more easily. This would be especially useful if a large amount of symbols were added to the dialog.
 * Organize the buttons into a proper, aligned grid - Currently, the horizontal width of each button containing a symbol differs greatly. This makes it a lot harder to search through, as your eye randomly skims through the unorganized list of symbols. Preferably, every symbol would be contained inside a button with the same horizontal size, all lined up similarly for ease of navigation for editors.

Hopefully these are helpful, I look forward to future progress!