Dries Buytaert wrote:
Looks nice and professional. (This discussion probably belongs on the theme development mailing list.)
I'd like to see a dashboard in Drupal 4.8/5.0. Kieran Lal and Earl Miles were working on that during the Drupal 4.7.0 code freeze.
I ultimately decided I didn't like what we had set up because it re-organized your menus for you. However, as Drupal moves forward I think that part may become less necessary. It does need to be re-arrangeable. Different administrators have different needs. People who are very new to Drupal need a lot of handholding; people who have been using it for awhile need less handholding and more detail exposed. But detail confuses newer people; without any sense of what the detail means, it's just extra info. While I haven't touched administration module for awhile, CivicSpace has moved forward with it and done some pretty nice stuff with it. I think if the next generation of it can find a decent way to organize the data that is both 1) configurable, 2) pluggable, 3) easy to follow, it will be a great benefit to the next version of Drupal.