Where to put the "Edit Article" edit button / What to do with tabs?

Maybe you could have two buttons called "Edit Article" and "Edit Article Fields." When you click "Edit Article" it would go to the node/%/edit and when you click "Edit Article Fields" it would highlight which fields are available for inline editing.

Then you could add all the local tasks (tabs) into a contextual cog link.

Here are two links that talk about moving those to contextual links.
1. http://drupal.org/project/contextual_admin
2. http://www.darrenmothersele.com/node/138

Hope that helps,
-Glenn

My tuppence worth:

I propose we get rid of the "Edit Article" button. Then we can just keep the existing tabs and thus the existing behavior.

What we're then doing, is only *adding* one experience: the one where you can edit fields in-place. The rest remains unchanged.

Thoughts?

I checked with Angie, and #4 made sense to her. So for now, the code that handles this is simply disabled.

It'll be trivial to either re-enable it, or completely remove it.

Coincidentally, this would also solve #1677684: "Edit <entity label>" button is triggered inconsistently :)

Commit: http://drupalcode.org/project/edit.git/commit/3be91f8.

Related: #1688166: [META] As a Drupal community member, I would like to see Edit module de-coupled from any particular toolbar implementation

#6: I don't see how that's related? This was about the "Edit Article" edit button which appears on hovering over an article. I think you're mistaken? :)

This has now been removed completely: http://drupalcode.org/project/edit.git/commit/006603b.