[drupal-devel] permissions page

[Anders]

http://drupal.org/node/30843#comment-44576

On 10/7/05, Kobus Myburgh <ITBJDM at puknet.puk.ac.za> wrote:
>
> I am not sure whether I understand your proposal correctly. See attached
> mock-up to see if I understand you correctly. If I do, my first idea here
> won't be feasible...
>
> First idea:
>
> This probably doesn't belong in this post, but I am posting here because
> it seems a refactoring of this page is eminent. While this is the case, it
> should also be done that the header row is repeated every 20 lines or so,
> because if you have a lot of modules installed, and a few roles (any amount
> of roles that require you to scroll sideways to edit) makes it very tedious
> to assign permissions.
>
> Second Idea:
>
> Since performance is not really an issue here, why not have different
> pages for each role (selectable by a drop-down, perhaps)? That way you can
> set the permissions for one user at a time, but you can set all modules in
> one sitting. If you have few roles and few modules, it will be slightly more
> work than now, but if you have a lot of modules/roles, this would be a great
> change.
>
> Third Idea:
>
> Add a checkbox "All" which will give ALL roles the specific permission.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kobus
>
>
> >>> karoly at negyesi.net 10/7/2005 3:35:41 PM >>>
> Role names take too much place and vertical text is only in CSS3 (and in
> IE for long) So, I thought of diagonal text, think one table cell per
> letter. There are javascripts for this out there, it would be very easy to
> do in PHP.
>
> Only one (or few?) modules would be displayed at once.
>
> To make the presumable huge table fit, let's make it unthemed with just a
> link to 'admin' to save space.
>
> Color the table like the chess board. Maybe 3 x 3 checkboxes would be one
> color.
>
> Regards
>
> NK
>
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