It would be nice if the admin/modules listing grouped multiple modules that resided in subfolders of the main modules directory. This way module collectives (like ecommerce or massmailer) would all show up in the same area of the module listing. It would make enabling/disabling these modules a lot more intuitive and also make it clear which modules were part of a group.

Single modules in a subfolder would not exhibit this behavior.

Just a thought.

-Jeff

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matt westgate’s picture

matt westgate commented

Being the author of the ecommerce package, I have to give a big '+ 1' to this as well. Why was this behavior removed?

I could see a re-implementation similar to our access control GUI where the first level of folders are displayed with the modules underneath, providing more context for the users.

adrian’s picture

adrian commented

Once this is in core, we could use the hook_info function to provide a 'bundle' field, and then modify the module list to group modules by bundle. (perhaps even on a separate tab? who knows).

http://drupal.org/node/18447

jonbob’s picture

jonbob commented
Component: module system » system.module

This is biting us big time in CCK now, too. Another +1 for the request.

markus_petrux’s picture

markus_petrux commented

There is an issue opened by chx, that I believe it is related to this. It contains a patch to add the ability to sort modules alphabetically.

morbus iff’s picture

morbus iff
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commented

See 4.7-ready patch at http://drupal.org/node/53096.

Frando’s picture

Frando commented
Status: Active » Fixed

fixed by http://drupal.org/node/81740

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)