At 12:32 PM +0200 25/9/05, Bèr Kessels wrote:
Case: node aggregator has some settings for this: how many feed entries to show etc. Now the current thing would enforce me to make a second page for RSS settings. Users should not have to visit two pages in different places to set their RSS settings.
This is perhaps a terminology issue and one that has confused the heck out of me. On several occasions while I've been learning Drupal I have enabled the aggregator module in order to activate an RSS feed of MY news. When what I really needed to do was turn on the RSS block. A visible "RSS Settings" admin option would have helped. Except it would need to be called "Syndicate" because that's what the block is called :)
Users should definately not have to think about the diff. between modules and core, and then find out where modules have settins and where core has its settings.
Out of interest, why is it that module settings show up under the Settings admin menu option and not in a pane within the module's own menu option? For example... using HEAD, I go to administer >> contact form. Up near the top of the window I see: [list] [add category] Why isn't there a [settings] option up there. I'm already in the section of the site for adminstering the contact form. Why can't I alter the settings from there? Or is this the "scattered settings" mis-feature you're talking about? It happens with a few different modules (aggregator is another). ...R.