[development] Suggestion for User Permissions

[blogdiva at culturekitchen.com]

On  28.Nov.2007, at 07:43 PM, Florian Loretan wrote:
> In that case, it seems like the best place to deal with this issue  
> is an install profile with an "admin" role which gets every  
> permissions by default.


OMFG!

These are the "little things" that Drupal should be adopting from a  
usability standpoint. Why assume that only person will be admin? Why  
assume that #1 is the only one to get to the site while it's offline?

I have a friend, John Simon, who is a software artist and he has  
described coding as creative writing. If it is, I have a whole  
dissertation to write about Drupal's #1 user. The fact that it  
remains "god-like" and without a role .... we're slipping into  
Lacanian territory here.

Here's a good interview by John
http://www.numeral.com/articles/atkins/decodingdigitalart/ 
decodingdigitalart.html

Here's an example of software art, btw (the patriarchy at home is  
Mark Napier)
http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/

OK, back to lurking,
liza


Liza Sabater, Publisher
www.culturekitchen.com
www.dailygotham.com

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