[drupal-devel] Admin theme.

[Chris Messina]

IMHO, this seems like a rediculous use-case against the development of
a consistent admin UI. While there may be many among us who run
numerous Drupal sites, I don't think that it's all that difficult to
fix this problem. All we need to do is put a place for the site's name
or logo in the header and you're done.

The benefits I think far outweigh this issue, which can easily be
remedied. I don't see this as being an intrinsic problem in separating
out the admin UI, it's simply a design problem.

Chris


On Mar 28, 2005 4:15 PM, Adrian Simmons <adrinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Messina wrote:
> 
> > Drupal should ship with a default /admin theme, which provides a
> > consistent backend UI for all Drupal installs.
> This is what we used to have, and it has bad usability for those of us
> that maintain several drupal sites. If all admin sections look the same
> how can you tell which site you're on? And what happens when you happen
> to be making changes to more than one site at a time - there's potential
> for great confusion when the only thing to differentiate the sites is
> the url in the location bar.
> 
> Consistent admin UI and a consistent admin theme aren't quite the same
> thing.
> 
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