Explore "Quick configure" (in contrast to "Quick edit") for the Outside In contextual link to clarify the difference between editing content and configuration [#2784563]

From various comments in #2753941: [Experimental] Create Outside In module MVP to provide block configuration in Off-Canvas tray and expand site edit mode:

@Wim Leers in #164:

It's confusing that this uses the action label "Quick edit", but it's provided by the "Outside-In" module, not by the "Quick Edit" module. Should this be called "Quick configure"?

@SKAUGHT in #166:

I think 'Quick Configure' is more apt a title than 'quick edit'. I think we're confusing in-place editing (content maintainer work) too closely to this kind of site-builder ability.

@Bojhan in #167:

To me "Quick configure" might bias it away from editing things that people consider content, but are in the gray area between configuration and content.

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Comment #1

15 August 2016 at 22:32

webchick created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

xjm

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CreditAttribution: xjm at Acquia commented 16 August 2016 at 02:40

Title:	Explore "Quick configure" (in contrast to "Quick edit") and/or other ways to make it clear what's about to be edited	» Explore "Quick configure" (in contrast to "Quick edit") for the Outside In contextual link to clarify the difference between editing content and configuration
Related issues:		+#2732443: Finalize the behavior for triggering view/edit/build modes from the toolbar (and fix the "disappearing toolbar"), +#2781583: Reconcile the many forms of editing and configuring stuff (and address potentially redundant contextual links), +#2783509: Outside In's "Edit" toggle lets you do just about everything except edit your content, +#2784567: List "Quick edit" before "Configure" in contextual links while in Edit mode, +#2782891: The Page Title block's title behaves in a confusing way with Settings Tray and the Help block incorrectly has Settings Tray styling

Narrowing the scope a bit, since we have a number of other issues for the broader problem.

Note that if we decide to stick with "Quick edit" and instead resolve the larger problem by making the experience of Quick Edit and Outside In more unified, this issue could probably be closed wontfix. Since it was raised in numerous reviews on- and off-issue, though, it's worth discussing.

Comment #3

tkoleary CreditAttribution: tkoleary at Acquia commented 16 August 2016 at 17:31

@Wim Leers, @Bojhan, @skaught

It's confusing that this uses the action label "Quick edit", but it's provided by the "Outside-In" module, not by the "Quick Edit" module. Should this be called "Quick configure"?

I agree with Bojhan. This is potentially confusing only to the person who is aware of the fact that the functionality comes from two different modules. The average user will see that they can "quickly edit" this block or that Article. Over time they learn that "Quick edit" will always let them make changes to a thing without leaving the page they are on.

We've already seen in the Minnesota tests that users don't really get the difference between content and configuration anyway, so it's not a useful distinction for them.