On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Daniel F. Kudwien <news@unleashedmind.com> wrote:
This goes out to some maintainers, specifically related to
- Notifications / Messaging - Organic Groups - Panels
Those and related/dependent modules are implementing top-level menu items, e.g.
- admin/messaging - admin/og - admin/panels
in the style of Drupal 4.7, instead of using the new administrative categories and structure we have since Drupal 5.x. This is not only confusing, but also clutters the administrative interface - especially, if Administration menu module is installed.
Although my fine module was not mentioned here, l10n_server does this same thing, so I am kind of feel like called out :) Others from Panels and Notifications/Messaging provided their opinion, so I'd not chip in, if I'd say the same. But maybe I am saying the same. For the l10n_server case, the separate high level item makes sense, since the l10n_server is a kind of standalone software. It does not help you track users, enter content, vote on content or whatever, but in a sense it does all of these. it has a highly specialized storage and UI system for translation editing and reuses Drupal capabilities to set up users, languages, organic groups, panels, blocks, whatever around itself. The module in itself is not related to site building, configuration, users or reports. It is merely a "high level tool" on your site you'd use. Now that I said it, I might have said the same things as others said on Panels and Notifications/Messaging, maybe in a more general way. And yes, I am an admin_menu user. I was the guy, who pushed it to be used on d6.drupal.org last week :) And yes, I appreciate high level tools highlighted on the highest level in my admin_menu. And yes, I understand that Panels, or Notifications/Messaging or l10n_server might not have the highest importance to people *once* they set up everything, and would instead only focus on core site management such as user, content and logs. Gábor