Design a UI to allow various kinds of alterations to referenced Media entities in a modal

#8 & #13 : will be good

Hi, So if I am correct, the goal of this ticket is to:

1. design how to edit from the media library widget
2. design how the actual edit modal should look

If I am not mistaken, number 1 is OK, we have concensus to use the pencil edit icon.

So in order to get this issue fixed, we need a design with concensus for the edit modal, correct ?

> If I am not mistaken, number 1 is OK, we have concensus to use the pencil edit icon.

Not exactly, because there can be more than one edit actions -- so far we have use cases for translate, edit, and override. Any number of these may be present at the same time.

Thanks for the feedback. So for number 1, that should just be whatever the design of contextual links is ? So we have that already ?

Hi,

What's wrong with #8 proposal ?

I'm agreed with the fact we don't need to have tabs in the modal. Those will be independent operation, so with a correct title on the modal you can check what you are doing

Updated IS to get more feedback about #8's proposal.

About #8 - I think some sort of dropdown is the right way to go, as we have an extensible number of options here.

However, I'm not sure about inventing a new icon + dropdown UI pattern, when we already have dropbuttons.

I agree with the proposals to re-use the contextual links pattern here (pencil icon in a circle plus dropdown). It may be a new pattern on the administrative theme while editing content, but it is not a new pattern for getting to editing from the front-end (edit block, edit teaser) nor for sitebuilding from the administration side (edit view). It is the right pattern to use in the media reference which by default has a preview much like what one would see on the front end.

Note that browsing the media library as Grid also has the preview much like what one would see on the front end and it already uses the pencil icon so extending that to the contextual links style (the pencil icon opens a dropdown) is completely natural there as well, and for Table, the existing button dropdown should continue to be used.

Issue summary isn’t super clear what’s being suggested. To better help the Usability team it should be clear so they can quickly pick up

I don't see what I can add to the IS to make it clearer.

This would be great to improve the default media options via extensible contextual links to:

1. View
2. Edit
3. Translate
4. Download →
5. Delete

I'm adding the Download one as a common use case by our users, but an extensible widget would allow a method to add additional options per use case.