Dries Buytaert wrote:
For example, why are the profile settings under 'admin > settings' but the input filters directly under 'admin'? Can anyone answer that question?
On a related note, this month I observed two colleagues installing and configuring their own Drupal 4.5.2 site independently from each other. Both had problems locating settings and both reported that they found it confusing that enabling a module "adds new settings at what seems to be random pages".
Furthermore, at one point they both enabled the search module and they both reported (again, independently from each other) that "their visitors could not search the site while they could". Turned out that neither checked the permission page after enabling the search module. Even after a few hours fiddling with Drupal, they did not expect an 'access search' permission to become available.
Also, one collleague wanted to hide the author information on nodes. He didn't find the setting until I told him where to look for it. The fact that this setting is theme-specific is a lot less intuitive than we like to believe (especially because 95% of the sites use only one theme). -- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/