[development] Why is Overlay in core?

[Gábor Hojtsy]

Hi Brian,

Have you tried opening admin links in new tabs and it did not work as
it did before? As far as I know the implementation, it should work as
before (open the given admin page in the Seven theme without an
overlay). So I think it is in no way against your preferred use of
tabbed browsing. (Ezra already pointed to
http://drupal.org/node/659488 to follow up with some commentary :)

Gábor

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I've been using D7 to get familiar with it, testing / writing patches, and
> to begin porting my contrib module. It is awesome, but the one thing that
> sticks out to me is the inclusion of Overlay in core.
>
> Why are we including Overlay enabled by default in core? What functional
> purpose does it serve beyond eye-candy?  I realize that it potentially
> allows you to remain on your current front-end page while doing some admin
> tasks, but isn't that why tabbed browsing was invented? This breaks anyways
> when you get redirected with a drupal_goto() somewhere.
>
> My biggest complaint is that It slows down the admin work of the site
> considerably, at least in my workflow.
>
> I don't mean to take away from the work that was put into overlay - some
> very talented people have put a lot of time and effort into building it,
> polishing it, and fixing some oddball performance issues. But it just
> doesn't seem to stick with the core philosophy.
>
> At least this module should be disabled by default in core.
>
> Brian
>