Total Drupal administration revamp
This is actually very very closely related to Redesign /admin as well as Re-work top-level admin categories. I don't want to pollute both issues with the following findings. If you are interested in reworking Drupal's administrative structure and top-level categories, you want to read on.
[01:22] * tha_sun gathered awesome usability insights from a newbie Drupal user after lengthy discussions.
[01:22] * tha_sun will incorporate that knowledge in admin menu 3.x.
[01:24] <dmitrig01> tha_sun: that being?
Translatable fields UI
Over the past two weeks at the core internationalization virtual sprint, we've been working on translatable fields. This would allow any core field attached to a node, user, taxonomy term etc. to be multilingual.
Core already allows for translating one entire node into another node, but you can't for example have translatable user profile fields, or taxonomy descriptions - and we're hoping this patch would be an enabler for that (and also make node translation more flexible).
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Drupal 7 Patch and Development Sprint at IIT Kanpur, India
From 12th to 15th February, IIT Kanpur will hold FOSSkriti (essentially an open-source-oriented conference with sprints and workshops). I have put in a proposal to hold a "Drupal Patch and Development Sprint". Below is the proposal mail that I sent...
website - http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti
Our primary aim at the hackathon will be to try and tackle some of the
impending Drupal 7 patches in the pipeline. Drupal 7 is poised to be
the best Drupal release ever (with stuff like a completely re-written
DB layer, a unit-testing framework, improved usability, better file
UB: Test plan
As you might know, we will be spending a week at the University of Baltimore doing a usability test (http://www.bojhan.nl/usability-testing-at-university-of-baltimore/). We intend to focus this study more on solving the problems that have previously been identified by testing at the UMN and UB.
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Reworking the filters of admin/content/node
I've been doing some work on the node administer form at admin/content/node, to move the filter storage from a session to $_GET params in the URL. This could have several benefits:
- The filtered pages are then bookmark-able and shareable
- The filters will be reset every time a user navigates away for an extended period of time, or through multiple pages
There are also disadvantages:
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Should "system name" or "machine name" be used for non-human readable names?
Helping with Copy Editing and Writing Cleanup In Drupal Core
Hello,
I am a writer with years of professional experience and a passion for web usability. I'd like to copy edit the Drupal core ui text.
Simple copy editing can dramatically improve usability and user-friendliness. Drupal would be easier to learn and use by, for example, eliminating repetition and unnecessary words.
To give you an idea of what I have in mind, let's take a look at this dreadful ui language from Drupal 6's admin/build/block page:
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Should titles contain emphasis (em) tags?
There's a key question in the air about appearance of drupal titles.
The question is if replaced elements if a title/heading (h1) should contain emphasis (em) or no.
In Drupal core are several examples for pro and con. The title appears also as browser title.
Samples are: (percentage variables replaced as plain text in this sample)
<h1>Configure <em>%format</em></h1>
<h1>Top pages in the past <em>%interval</em></h1>
<h1>Translations of <em>%title</em></h1>
Move the "Read more" link to end of a nodes teaser
Attempt at improving the Input formats admin page.
I recently got frustrated enough with the admin/settings/filters page to build a module to rebuild it for Drupal 6. Input Format Manager
My three significant changes to the default page are:
- Putting all the links on to one page. The default admin page currently forces you to click "configure" and then "configure" again on the next page to set the individual filter options.
