[drupal-devel] [bug] "my account" menu item oddities

[Mark Quinn]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:39:07 +0100, tangent <drupal-devel at drupal.org> wrote:
>  Project:      Drupal
>  Version:      4.5.0
>  Component:    menu system
>  Category:     bug reports
>  Priority:     normal
>  Assigned to:  Anonymous
>  Reported by:  jasper
>  Updated by:   tangent
>  Status:       patch
> 
> It seems unlikely that I am the only one to notice/realize this so I'm
> probably missing something but ?=/user currently redirects to the "my
> account" url. Therefore, shortening the link to simply "/user" would
> make the url generic and serve the intended purpose no?
> 
> tangent
> 
> 
> Previous comments:
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> 
> November 19, 2004 - 16:03 : jasper
> 
> 1. "my account" link can not be given "weight"
> 
> 2. If edited, "my account" link behaves strangely: appears as separate
> menu in admin screen, disappears from navigation menu, etc.
> 
> 3. Subitems can't be added under my account, or, strange things happen
> if you try to do that.
> 
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> 
> November 25, 2004 - 06:36 : jasper
> 
> Reproduce the error:
> 
> 1. Assign sub-menus to "my account"  menu item
> 
> 2. edit "my account" menu item - capitalize "My Account"
> 
> result:
> 
> 1. sub-menus disappear from navigation block
> 
> 2. "My Account" becomes separate Menu at the bottom of the menu
> administration page.
> 
> I would really like to capitalize the "my account" link. Any way to do
> that without bugging out the menus?
> 
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> 
> December 18, 2004 - 01:05 : jasper
> 
> anybody?
> 
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> 
> January 27, 2005 - 14:36 : JonBob
> 
> Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/user_13.patch (705 bytes)
> 
> The "my account" menu item includes the user ID, so really cannot be
> customized. This is unfortunate. The attached patch corrects the
> mentioned bug by locking the menu item as it should be, but doesn't
> address the usability issue of not being able to customize the menu
> item. I suggest we move ahead with this patch for the 4.5 branch and,
> since time is short, likely 4.6.
> 
> Any suggestions for how to make this item editable? I think we'd need
> some way to have multiple paths for a single menu item... wildcards or
> something. But an implementation escapes me.
> 
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> 
> January 27, 2005 - 14:50 : Steven
> 
> Perhaps we could change the path for "my account" to "user/me" or
> something? Link-wise it's not too hard to implement, just do "user/".
> ($account->uid == $user->uid ? "me" : $account->uid) or something when
> linking to that page.
> 
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> 
> January 27, 2005 - 16:35 : Dries
> 
> The patch did not apply cleanly against DRUPAL-4-5.  I modified the
> patch and committed it to DRUPAL-4-5 and to HEAD. I'm leaving this
> issue open for a couple more days.
> 
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> 
> January 27, 2005 - 18:21 : Boris Mann
> 
> The same issue comes up with other menus that include the user ID (there
> are a couple, can't recall exactly which).
> 
> While user/me is interesting, it would then be inconsistent with things
> like blog/UID and blog/UID/feed.
> 
> Adding something like [uid] to menu creation might make menu code more
> complex, but should work.
> 
> --
> View: http://drupal.org/node/13184
> Edit: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/13184
> 
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