Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/78773 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/78773 Project: User experience Version: <none> Component: usability Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: inactivist Updated by: greggles Status: patch (code needs review) This is very similar to the goal of http://drupal.org/node/28301 though 28301 which should have been implemented in http://drupal.org/node/44379 but it seems to have fallen out of that issue. Basically, there's lots of people who agree this is a good idea, though moshe's comment#13 on 28301 seems to indicate that it should be simpler than the patch by inactivist. greggles Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:10:34 +0000 : inactivist Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/drupal-access-control-with-new-hover.patch.tx... (1.67 KB) One of the things that frustrates me when using drupal is the access control feature. I think the basic idea is fine; it's just that the UI for the access control panel (a grid of checkboxes) can be cumbersome to work with when you have multiple non-standard roles defined. My straightforward solution is to prepend the text *"allow [role name] to " *the tooltip text for the checkbox. For background and details, see my write-up on twogrunts.com [1]. /*Note:* this is my first attempt at submitting a patch to anything in the drupal project, core or otherwise. I'm a newbie (to drupal and PHP), so please, let me know if I'm taking the wrong approach here, or if there's an easier way to do this. In particular, I wasn't sure what project and component to assign this to./ [1] http://www.twogrunts.com/node/3