Closing as won’t do because it isn’t technically doable on our side, unfortunately.

Following the option number 2/3, I voted and linked both suggestions 32036 and 76335, but it seems unlikely that Atlassian might be taken these into account given that the initial suggestion 29091 has been rejected even though it had much more votes. I doubt that option number 1 is viable either but userscripts are not tracked here anyway.

hmm.. Would it be possible to make an userscript that enabled click-to edit instead? I mean, it has an interface for accepting such changes.. Would an external script be able to just sort of.. Run on top of the page and admit such changes
and they'd be accepted with the underlying ability Jira has for it.

As per tonight's meeting, I've turned inline editing back on.

Possible options going forward (as brought up in the meeting):
1. Getting a userscript made that disables click-to-edit for text fields
2. Lobbying Atlassian to make click-to-edit a per-user setting
3. Lobbying Atlassian to make click-to-edit toggleable per attribute (or at least text fields/non-text fields)

+1 to what alastair said. I really like having this on on components and fix versions, having it off on descriptions and titles

is it not possible to enable this for some and not for others?
if I recall correctly, weren't things like "type" and "status" not click to edit-able at all, before?

After using new jira a lot recently, I really like it on everything except the comment/description boxes. (Especially for changing components, labels, and assigned users). I'll see how easy it is to continue editing these parts without click-to-edit. It's a bit annoying (though completely understandable) that it can't be selectively enabled.

I've toggled the option to OFF for now. @bitmap voiced annoyance with the feature on IRC, CatQuest and samj1912 here, and IIRC alastairp also complained about it in IRC at one point. This also disables click-to-edit of the ticket title, components, labels, asignee, etc.

I'll leave this open and ask about it on a Monday meeting whether to keep it this way.

For reference, if we somehow should want to toggle it back, go to https://tickets.metabrainz.org/secure/admin/ViewApplicationProperties.jspa and switch the "Inline edit" option.