Icon link to /admin

The link right below the icon links to the path "admin" already.

You need the icon link if your site provides no other way to get to the front page.

Not sure what I'm missing, but none of the above makes sense:

"The link right below the icon links to the path "admin" already"

What icon are you talking about? I see the "Drupal" icon, and the link right below that is "Flush all caches". On the right is the icon that points to /admin/user/user. And none of the links point to the main /admin page.

It's almost comical that there isn't a link to the main admin page.... At the very least, /admin/settings/admin_menu should have a checkbox to enable a direct link to /admin.

Jim

Re-opening: @sun, there's no link the the whole of admin_menu that links to "/admin". The first link is the "flush all caches" link. The entries I have under the favicon are:

* /
* /admin_menu/flush-cache > flush cache sub menus
* /devel/variable
* /admin/reports/status/run-cron
* /update.php
* /admin_menu/toggle-modules
* http://drupal.org > drupal.org links

It make more sense to link to /admin than / because almost every site will have a link to / prominent near the top of the page anyway - either in the logo, or in the header links. And admins are going to visit the front page far less than normal users anyway.

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oh, sorry - right, we had to remove that, because the menu system got confused by a second link pointing to admin/.

In 3.x though, we have an entirely different architecture, so we could easily squeeze in a custom link to admin/, if we really want and if we really need that.

Emphasis on if... because at least under D7, there will be a new dashboard. Not entirely sure yet, under which path exactly that lives, but "if".

The Google Usability Study showed that users actually clicked the icon to get to the front page (and intuitively expected that to be the case). It also showed that none of the users had a desire to go to the /admin overview page.

fwiw, rc2 contains a link to /admin/index as "Index" below the icon.

With users, I meant the probands, which worked as uid 1 and were asked to execute various administrative site building and configuration tasks.