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: inactivist Status: patch (code needs review) Awesome! I had a feeling this wasn't new. And I'm glad to see that there's a cleaner way to implement this. So, this raises one question (for me, anyway) - why do useful patches like this not make it into the mainline releases? Is there something that we need to do in order to ensure that something like this makes it into the next 4.7.x release? -Mike inactivist 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:37:17 +0000 : greggles 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.