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Improve the UI of Comments: No need for an icon for annotations

 
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cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-18abd8be-6de9-4fc3-b77d-ddd73b6716f3 Charpentier Lucas created this issue on 19/Nov/25 13:39
 
Summary: Improve the UI of Comments: No need for an icon for annotations
Issue Type: cid:jira-generated-image-avatar-19e229f3-d19f-4bb6-8563-3fef572caacb Improvement
Affects Versions: 17.9.0
Assignee: Unassigned
Attachments: image-2025-11-19-13-35-32-944.png
Created: 19/Nov/25 13:39
Labels: usability
Priority: cid:jira-generated-image-static-major-76bef854-da59-439c-bfb1-18f08957ea94 Major
Reporter: Charpentier Lucas
Description:

Proposal link: https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/CommentsAnnotations#HProposal232.17CNoneedforaniconforannotations

Proposal: Drop the icon and make the annotated text in content clickable. When clicking the annotated text, the annotation opens.
Looks:
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Behavior details:

The highlighted text should be interactable.
Interactive objects in the highlighted text will take priority and disable the highlight selection ( https://forum.xwiki.org/t/no-more-view-annotation-icon/16104/6 )
On hover, the highlight changes color.
On click, the comment popup opens.
Be careful with the contrast between standard text and highlight colors.