On Sun, 29 May 2005, K B wrote:
Whether we like it or not, perception is everything. The original article gives Drupal high marks as the most feature laden CMS.
This actually worried me more than the rest of his article. First, I don't think "feature laden" is actually positive, second he does not seem to have a wide overview over the CMS world.
His style and language are vulgar for sure, but as I pointed elsewhere, some people never get over high school style talk. Many don't differentiate between chat, email, blogs, and use the same trash talk everywhere.
Right, we should not worry over such people. We should not even work them with the clue bat. Waste of time.
The rest of the comments do not stem from a vacuum though. Let us deal with the real issues (not the style) he raises (somehow) rather than be in denial, and go in ad hominem mode.
There is no issue, only perception. The "problem" with Drupal is that it is very modular and flexible. /Your/ admin function can be /my/ user feature. Thus, it is very hard to determine which pages are "admin" pages. There are a few pages which are more admin like than others of course. I would not mind if we'd modify Drupal to add "admin" CSS tags for such pages if it would stop the constant whining and bitching. One point to consider is: If you cannot use your regular theme for admin pages (because it is too graphics laden?) then what good is it for your usual pages? I am a site administrator at drupal.org and never found it a problem that bluebeach is used for both types of pages. I've recently set up a site using occy.theme and was rather surprised that it has some sort of an admin theme for URLs starting with "admin". I guess I can work with both. The suggestion by Scott to add an "admin" theme for the actual admin account and use a user acoount for everyday's work is also worth to consider. I am doing that at drupal.org. If you can add subdomains at will, you can also make admin.doma.in an alias to doma.in and have both accounts open in the same browser (Killes' Drupal Secrets #22). Cheers, Gerhard