panels 6.x-3.0-alpha1

This is an initial, ALPHA version of Panels 3!

Panels 3 is a redesign primarily of Panels page. Much of Panels has been removed to the CTools module that Panels now depends upon. This is a very early release, designed mostly to get the new UI out into the hands of people who want to use it and get some feedback and possibly coding assistance.

You will notice Panel pages module is *gone*. Instead, enable delegator module and visit admin/build.pages.

KNOWN ISSUES

• No upgrade path yet. I'll do that last, because tinkering with an upgrade path every time something changes SUCKS.
• Much of Panels has not yet been converted to use the CTools tools, so there's now a lot of redundant code in the system that will slowly be removed.
• Because of the above point, there is still a dependency on Views module. This will go away once all of the form and ajax stuff is migrated to use CTools instead.
• Imports and exports work but are a little bit difficult.

A quick idea of what to do with this

If you want to create a new panel page, or you want to override the node page, turn on panels, ctools and delegator. Visit admin/build/pages. To override the node page, add a task handler to 'node view'. On the selection criteria page, be sure to add a 'node type' selector if you want different node types to have different pages. If you just want one panel for all nodes, don't do anything in selection criteria.

You can also add a new page; right now there are a large number of options there. I may add a second 'simple page' that cannot have arguments or menu tabs. We'll see if there is much of a demand for a simpler version.