[drupal-devel] permissions page

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Karoly Negyesi wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:26:40 +0200, Herman Webley
> <herman.webley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I believe this is what Karoly had in mind:
> >
> > 1. No theme('page',..  for the permissions page
> > 2. Link to admin pages (since the page is not themed)
> > 3. Diagonal text for role names (to prevent sideways table expansion)
> > 4. Checker board for permissions checkboxes
> >
> > The tabled cells for the diagonal text was rather obscure, so I
> > suggested that GD could be used used to generate the diagonal text.
> > I'm not sure that its a good idea, but I've made a mockup.
> >
> > Notes for the mockup:
> > 1. Header is a graphic
> > 2. Check all box (javascript)
> > 3. Fixed width form (to match header)
> >
> > http://phone.com.jm/drupal/files/permissions_page.png
>
> That's _exactly_ what I had in my mind (though the text is diagonal'd the
> other direction. Ie I thought to go from from top left to bottom right.
>
> Screen readers will get ALT texts for images -- the role names themselves.
> Every role name will be a separate transparent image (IE only has problem
> with 8 bit alpha channel PNGs or so I think).
>
> That mockup is beautiful. Comments, please!

I don't like the idea of having text as images. Doesn't scale. Also, if
you scroll down onthat page, you still won't know to which role you are
assigning perms. I think my solution is simple, accessible, and solves all
problems.

Cheers,
	Gerhard