Re: Number of clicks with new Admin menu

On Oct 16, 2003, at 8:19 AM, <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> While I like the idea of organizing the admin menu to make it 
> narrower, I think the site map / admin hierarchy feature needs to 
> return so that administrators can see a tree of all admin menus and 
> get to the task they want to perform in less clicks. Any opinions on 
> that?
> Maybe the site map is just not integrated with the new menu yet?

Personally I prefer the narrow menu and in fact wish it were even more 
streamlined. But that's my personal preference. There are really two 
issues here:
1) We need an intuitive and clean menu layout. This is obviously a 
tricky task and has and will inspire many debates.
2) We need a way for people to fairly easily customize the menu 
structure if what we decide on doesn't suit them. I don't necessarily 
think that we have to make this an option in the admin pages (it might 
complicate support if we can't direct people to a link in a particular 
location), but people comfortable with modifying source shouldn't 
encounter too many roadblocks in moving things around. Currently this 
is difficult because of reliance on arg() calls; modules are built 
around pages having particular URI's. I'm working on patches to remove 
this reliance in 4.4. Then it will be as easy as going to the module's 
_links hook and changing the paths in one place, and everything should 
work.
--
Jonathan Chaffer
Applications Developer, structure:interactive
(616) 364-7423    http://www.structureinteractive.com/

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