Find a proper solution for table selection in case of Balloon and Balloon Block editors

[wwalc]

Currently when multiple cells are selected, the table toolbar takes the precedence. It means that in case of Balloon and Balloon Block editors it's impossible to use the primary toolbar on selected cells. Which means that e.g. formatting tables becomes hard as one has to do it for each cell manually.

A follow-up of #6443

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[Reinmar]

DUP reported in #10770.

Quoting myself:

Three quite random thoughts from me, but I'd also like to hear @oleq's opinion.

• When using tables, don't use the balloon-based editors. While sexy and seemingly user-friendly, the balloons are in fact a terrible UX mess and cause various interaction conflicts.
• We do not want to touch the right-click (context menu). CKEditor 4 does this and if you try clicking the "Paste" option in the overridden context menu you'll get a warning. Plus there are other issues when hiding native UI. So this is not the way to go.
• Isn't your case solvable by configuring the table toolbar to contain the same buttons that are used in the content toolbar? I mean https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/api/module_table_table-TableConfig.html#member-contentToolbar and https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/api/module_table_table-TableConfig.html#member-tableToolbar.

[OLCadlywydd]

Thanks for the info @Reinmar. Personally, I would use a different editor, but I only opened this as I encountered it while using Trilum, which uses the balloon-block editor. I will raise the option of changing the toolbar options there. Thanks again!