Displaying the formatting buttons for RTE is very unintuitive.

[ara4n]

Steps to reproduce

1. Want to format some text
2. Select a chunk of text, expecting to see a context menu of some kind appear to give you the option to format it.
3. Try long-tapping on it. Nothing happens.
4. Look confused
5. Later on, try sending an image by hitting (+)
6. See that "show formatting controls" have been hidden in the (+) menu
7. Feel confused because you've been trained to think the (+) menu is for sending different types of content - images, locations, files etc. Not showing/hiding formatting toolbars.

Outcome

What did you expect?

A "Format" item or similar when you select text in the RTE composer, which if selected, reveals the beautiful RTE formatting buttons.

What happened instead?

Much flailing around trying to understand how to display the formatting buttons. I had to ask in the room in the end(!) - thanks to @alfogrillo for explaining the UI to me!

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Operating system version

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Application version

380

Homeserver

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Will you send logs?

No

[VolkerJunginger]

This is not a bug, but a feature request. I filed a ticket element-hq/element-meta#2045. If the effort is low it might be part of the epic. Otherwise this might come later.