From Adam_Cooper@europe.pall.com Mon Jul 31 08:58:06 2006 From: Adam Cooper To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Modules page rework Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:57:49 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============7133568797442786883==" --===============7133568797442786883== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >On 29 Jul 2006, at 18:00, Moshe Weitzman wrote: >> looks like a big improvement to me. if you are into experimenting, >> i would try this out with just a table and no fieldsets. use >> subtabs for things like 'contrib', 'installed'. the default should >> show lots of modules i would think, like today. > >Here is WordPress' forthcoming plugin manager: > > http://www.brokenkode.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Plugins.jpg > >My first impression is that it a lot easier to the eye than Earl's >proposal. > > - The module names are links that take you to the corresponding >settings page. > - They are not using checkboxes but buttons. I'm in agreement with Dries. It would be nice to look at the approach taken by word press. Your current checkbox metaphor I think would confuse users as it uses a context sensitive approach whereas most users are used to checked =3D on/yes, not checked =3D off/no. If inactive modules were on a sep= arate page you may just get away with it (though people would no doubt apply the active modules metaphor to the inactive modules. i.e. check to disable and infact enable.) As it stands having two types of, identical looking, opposite= ly behaving checkboxes on one page would cause pandemonium. In summary, links to module settings don't hurt, and losing the checkboxes would be a nice experiment. Adam

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