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I think this whole overlay-in-core issue has kind of raised a fairly
significant issue to my mind - who exactly is Drupal's target audience?<br>
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It seems to me that alot of the changes made by the D7UX team were
targeted at a certain demographic - new users, who don't necessarily
have a lot of experience running a CMS.<br>
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This is fair enough - obviously we want to attract new users. This
makes for a strong and vibrant community. However, some of these
changes seem to have come at the expense of the more experienced
developers and site-builders who work with Drupal all day, every day.
Two primary items come to mind:<br>
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<li>Overlay in core and enabled by default.</li>
<li>The Toolbar module</li>
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These impede the day-to-day operations for more experienced users. I
suspect that these are items that are going to be disabled by most
people in my position, and replaced with the Admin Menu module.<br>
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I realize that they have shown benefits towards helping new Drupal
users accustom themselves to the CMS, so they have value. At the same
time, I don't want to have to go out of my way to disable this stuff
every time I develop a website or set up a test or development
environment.<br>
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I wonder if there is call to have a separate, supported install profile
for more advanced users that does away with some of these things?<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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