722640 - "Undo Add to Dictionary" is not very useful after time passes since dictionary addition

Status: NEW

(Core :: Spelling checker, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

(Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team from bug 352037 comment #17)
> A simple way would be to include an extra item in the context menu “Undo
> adding ‘XYZ’ to the dictionary” and make it only appear when there's
> something that was just added — ie. the “oops” case.

There are two details which don't align with Limi's suggestion:
1) The initial implementation in bug 352037 adds a context menu for the rest of the browser session once a word is added to the dictionary.  This is too long of a time period to solve the "oops" case.  It adds extra distraction with a very small likelihood of use after a few seconds because...

2) The menu item doesn't display the word that will be removed from the dictionary.  After some time passes, it's very unlikely the user will remember if a word was accidentally added.

Some possible solutions:
1) Save the undo state with each page/field instead of globally.  When the page changes, the undo history is cleared.
2) Clear the undo state after a delay.
3) Show the word to undo in the menu so at least the user will be reminded of the word in question.

Comment 1

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Yeah, I was under the impression that at least this was already in the patch:
  3) Show the word to undo in the menu so at least the user will be reminded of the word in question.

That should take care of most cases — if it's trivial to do it on a per-page basis, we should do that, but showing which word will be removed from the dictionary is at least a great improvement.

Comment 2

[Will Pittenger]

I like some of these options.  #3 sounds like the most critical.  Has anything been done in the last year and a half?  From the age of the existing comments, this bug has just sat there. :(

Comment 3

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

(Not a bug)