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Remove "Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)" user preference from MediaWiki core
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Description

The "Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)" user preference should be removed from MediaWiki core.

While it seems like this user preference would be inside [[mw:Extension:Vector]], it's not. It's inside includes/Preferences.php:


if ( $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch ) {
$defaultPreferences['vector-simplesearch'] = array(

		'type' => 'toggle',
		'label-message' => 'vector-simplesearch-preference',
		'section' => 'searchoptions/displaysearchoptions',

);

}

This should be an easy bug to resolve; marking it with the Bugzilla keyword
accordingly.


Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz52815

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:12 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz52815.

I would like to prepare a patch for this bug. Please assign it to me.

Change 99422 had a related patch set uploaded by 01tonythomas:
Removed 'Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)' from MW user Preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99422

We should probably not do this, until "search" action is the default when people do not have JS enabled.

Change 99422 merged by jenkins-bot:
Removed 'Enable simplified search bar (Vector skin only)' from MW user Preference

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/99422