[development] Administration page patch committed

Chris Johnson chris at tinpixel.com
Fri Aug 4 21:37:06 UTC 2006


Moshe Weitzman wrote:
> Rowan Kerr wrote:
>> I would say the biggest single improvement for any dedicated admin 
>> theme is removing all the extraneous blocks, navigation, etc from the 
>> page and only providing the common site header (or a minimal version 
>> of it with logo and site_name), and the admin menu links.
>>
>> -Rowan
> 
> i agree. i would actually like for theme('page') to be enhanced so that 
> any page can declare itself as block free. this would override settings 
> in block admin. the use case is panels.module - 
> http://drupal.org/project/panels ... there might be other ways to 
> achieve this too.
> 
> 

Excellent idea!  Sometimes it makes sense to have "single purpose" pages 
amongst the more general pages on a site.  Admin seems like a good candidate, 
and providing a way for other modules to specify their pages this way is a 
good option to give to developers.


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