[drupal-docs] Customizing applications pages

[Boris Mann]

On 9-May-05, at 9:44 PM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> How about we change modules to applications.  Everywhere else on  
> planet earth we call them applications.  It's a usability issue.    
> Every time I talk to someone who doesn't read 50 drupal posts a day  
> they look at me with a glazed look over their eyes when I say the  
> word module.

They're not applications. Do you double-click and they run? They  
don't stand alone. Some of them don't even directly DO anything that  
regular folks would recognize (the Drupal module is probably a good  
example).

Drupal/CivicSpace is an application. The things inside are modules,  
because they provide modular functionality.

IMHO, the word "application" in this context is more misleading than  
the word module. This is a piece of terminology that must be learned  
in the context of web applications, I believe.

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