On Jun 6, 2006, at 7:49 AM, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
I do believe that the block / region settings are very much a display issue.
i don't feel too passionately about this, so please ignore if this is a viewpoint of a tiny minority, but i consider blocks to be content, and themes to be how the content looks. i really like the separation of content from presentation that drupal + the theme layer maintains. sure, a lot of the content in blocks can be viewed by other means, but not all of it. some things can only be done via blocks, and i think of deciding what blocks to enable and how they should behave as making decisions about what content should be available on a given page. what the blocks *look* like is a job for the theme layer, and therefore, something i usually don't care about at all. ;) personal bias: i mess with block configuration far more often on my site than themes, so -1 to making the themes the default tab and the blocks buried under yet another layer of clicking to access. of course, *where* on the pages a given block goes is more on the presentation side of things, and it'd be far worse to split out these configuration settings for block (1 page at admin/blocks to enable them, and a different page/tag in admin/display to control where they appear -- EVIL!). if the theme-aware among us believe strongly this question of layout is the fundamental aspect of block configuration, and want to group all of this with other display related stuff, i won't object *too* loudly. ;) final thought: drumm (for good reason) already thinks the block admin pages are too busy and cluttered as they are. perhaps splitting out some of that stuff into sub-tabs would make the whole thing easier to manage. moving admin/blocks to a tab on /admin/display would probably make this problem worse. again, i don't want to generate flames about this, so if everyone thinks i'm crazy, i'll go away on this thread. ;) but, i wanted to at least raise some counter-arugments while we're considering this change. thanks, -derek (dww)