Questions tagged [user-interface]
For questions about the user interface elements (inputs, checkboxes, etc) that make up this site. For questions about the design of elements, use {design}.
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Enable the new copy code button on TeX.SE
One of the long standing feature requests to add a "copy code" button to questions has been implemented on Stack Overflow. For an example, see this question about beamer on SO to try out the ...
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Changing vote buttons back to pen nibs
TeX.SE lost its iconic voting icons in The Great Undesign of 2018, while some other sites were allowed to keep their custom voting buttons. That was a very tragic day for the site.
Luckily SO now ...
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Could a default comment about MWEs be added in reviews?
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Recently I noticed a very common behavior about new users, they ask questions without providing MWEs.
As an example, this question have more than one comment about lack of MWE.
While review ...
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Election page shows contradictory info about the number of candidates
This is certainly a minor issue but I still decided to report it, just in case
Although it says candidates 6 the ballot contains 5 candidates only.
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Watched Tags: no coloring questions
In the panel on the right I have highlighted a few tags that are my favorites. This generated a light pastel color that let me know that the question was among my favorites and referred to a tag in ...
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a blinking arrow indicating a reply with more votes below
If the accepted answer to a question is very long, we need to scroll down whether the next reply has more votes or not. I would like to request SE software development team to add a blinking arrow ...
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Users without gravatar (avatar)?
In these days I see that there are many users without a gravatar (image) like this:
Addendum:
What is the reason?
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TeX.SE editor: insert citation
In the site Math.SE. I have seen that there is also an icon (marked with an orange square in the image below) named "insert citation".
In TeX.SE this icon doesn't exist.
Is it important to have this ...
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Dark mode in TeX Stack Exchange
I just realised that there is an option for dark mode for Stack Overflow. I was wondering if there is any chance our community could use it too.
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Show user group membership in user info box
In today's discussion session at TUG2019, Jim Hefferon asked whether it would be possible to add a badge for user group membership to the user info box.
Here is a mockup of what I have in mind, where ...
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Red dot in review dropdown menu
From time to time, entries in the review dropdown menu are marked with a red dot and bold font for me instead of the usual gray dot:
Even after doing the reviews and reloading the page this highlight ...
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Add button "Select All" [duplicate]
May be it is not really a big problem, but it would be a nice addition to the site features if there was a button over or after the code to select all the code. I think it is useful more in cases you ...
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Any plans to add on-site compilation to preview MWEs/solutions?
I frequently run into code posted to this site which I'd like to see in rendered form in order to quickly decide whether it fits my needs.
Opening a document just to do this often feels like a hassle....
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Raw https links are prettified in the actual post, but not in the preview
When editing another user's post, I noticed that raw https links to locations on the SE Network are not prettified in the previewer in the same way http links are.
When actually submitting the change ...
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The hyperlink color seems to be difficult to distinguish from the text
In my opinion (or my eyes are so bad), I think the hyperlink color is difficult to differentiate from the text. As a result, I always add a word "click" in the hyperlink to overcome this issue.
It ...
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