Posted by sime on April 19, 2007 at 11:36am
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| Project: | Drupal core |
| Version: | 7.x-dev |
| Component: | system.module |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (duplicate) |
Issue Summary
Installing a lot of modules I've noticed that /admin/settings section of the administration area tends to fill up.
At the same time, I've wanted a snazzy little media section. People love the image, flash, file management stuff.
This patch adds /admin/media called "Media management". It moves "file system", "file uploads" and "image toolkit" to the new location.
| Attachment | Size | Status | Test result | Operations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| media-section0.patch | 1.76 KB | Ignored: Check issue status. | None | None |
Comments
#1
er, new patch includes change to upload admin path
#2
Patch no longer applies.
# patch -p0 < media-section0_0.patch
patching file modules/system/system.module
Hunk #1 succeeded at 175 with fuzz 2 (offset 7 lines).
Hunk #2 FAILED at 275.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file modules/system/system.module.rej
patching file modules/upload/upload.module
Hunk #1 FAILED at 82.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file modules/upload/upload.module.rej
#3
Rerolled. Plus I've learned grep since then ;) so I found some other paths I should have updated.
#4
major +1. I found no problems so it's RTBC!
#5
To me, media is content too so I'm not sure it warrants its own "block". We spent a lot of time coming up with these categories; it's based on user surveys and card sort experiments. More support and consideration is required to get this committed.
#6
Thanks for the review, Dries. I'll first expand on the initial problem.
Using D5, the only issue I have with admin page is the Settings block. The screenshot attached shows my latest project. It has 25 links in the settings block (the next biggest is 12 in the Content block). The problem is unruliness, lots of disorganized topics which can be difficult to visually dissect and thus confusing and intimidating.
Please close the ticket if you don't this is a problem.
Otherwise, my mind naturally starts grouping and organising these links. As you see in the same screenshot, I've marked the links that I think fall into a the "media" category. There are some other categories that might work too, but I believe from experience that "Media" is a very accessible concept - people think of videos, images, files, songs, pdf attachments. I think it's a category that would have the most immediate acceptance and uptake.
#7
I'll now attempt to market the "media" idea.
/me cracks knuckles.
Unfortunately, I didn't find much backup (see attached screenshot of the best 3 of 6 I looked at).
/me slumps shoulders,
The Joomla admin page is exactly what I'm thinking, but it's still only a link to a file manager.
(Note, the screenshot shows typo3, joomla, and phpwebsite admin sections. The systems I checked by didn't include are postnuke, php-nuke and wordpress.)
#8
#9
#228236: Redesign /admin