Posted by pwolanin on August 31, 2008 at 8:31am
| Project: | Drupal core |
| Version: | 7.x-dev |
| Component: | menu system |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (fixed) |
Issue Summary
The menu admin screen uses "Source for Main menu" to describe a how to choose the links appearing at the top of the page. We should rename these back to "links" because there is tremendous confusion since we have a menu block with the same name and the word "menu" is being tremendously overloaded.
As a follow-on, the "default menu for content" item is not very understandable or useful.
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| Menu-admin-confusion-D7.jpg | 110.12 KB | Ignored: Check issue status. | None | None |
Comments
#1
#2
This patch both changes the text and also saves some default links to give guidance (optional, but a feature we lost in D6).
Note: this patch came from dire new-user confusion at the Drupalcon Awesome testing party #2 when the user was asks to write tests for this admin page. He came to me with his tale of woe.
#3
This looks good to me. The original changes to main menu/secondary menu for the drop down on node/add pages are retained, but it fixes the very confusing wording on the admin page (which is my fault, didn't spot this when renaming it first time around). Much better this way although I've not actually tested the patch.
I'd like to look at this page a bit more, maybe move it to a theme setting or something (alongside display settings for primary/secondary links), but that's out of scope for this issue.
#4
Moving all usability issues to Drupal - component usability.
#5
From my listening at the code sprint in Szeged I thought the "usability" component is being rm'd. Anyhow, per webchick this is CNW since the addition of links should happen via the install profile rather than always by hook_install.
#6
I think these wording changes help.
In the patch, "Main menu" and friends are sometimes initial-capped and sometimes lowercased. IMHO, the case should be consistent, should match the rest of the interface (which I guess would make it be "Main menu") and be italicized to help make it clear that we're talking about a particular element of the interface.
#7
2 defualt links saved from the default install profile
#8
Are there actual nodes behind these links or are these 'empty' links? (subscribing with a somewhat relevant question :-)
#9
@yoroy - these are links to the menu administration screens for the primary/secondary menu - not real content, but real links.
Also moving back to usability - it's the 'user experience' project that was deleted.
#10
Committed to CVS HEAD. Thanks!
temp
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#11
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.
#12
Was not entirely cleaned up: followup here #503938: Users Set the Parent Menu Item to "Add a main menu item"