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Re: Too Complicated

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Because I was just checking that someone knew about it...

BTW, it only does it when I'm not logged in....

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If they wanted to know about bugs, they wouldn't ban reporting them ;)
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APTX wrote:Since were at options... some of them can fit in two or more groups (First time I installed 2.1 I thought user permissions would be under user/groups). Could you order the admin / ucp links not alphabeticaly but in a order of importnace or frequency of use (After you've set up your forum the most common thing you do in the admin panel is changing permissions and banning)? As an example the server settings could be at the bottom of the menu becouse those are the options you don't usually change every day.
Hope you'll find my point of view interesting.
There is ongoing work on making the admin control panel more accessible. Patience. :)
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I'm still waiting to see which method of ACP page generation is going to be used (although to be fair I'm looking at it from a code point of view)

The current method in the ACP is broadly speaking the same as 2.0.x and from a coding point of view is nice, but you have little control over the ordering of menu items.

Going down the route of the UCP and MCP (as a recent check-in indicates to me is being considered) would in some ways give more control on the ordering of the menus (since you could change it in the database) but is in other ways more restrictive on areas as well.

On the UI front, I've worked most of the relevant stuff out simply by playing with it, but I agree that documentation will be required.

I've actually produced my own API docs on some aspects which I will be using (and will probably release them if no one else does), but they wouldn't be much use to the end user :mrgreen:
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Re: Too Complicated

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dhn wrote:There is ongoing work on making the admin control panel more accessible. Patience. :)
What gave you the impression that I'm unpatient?
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at first i found the forum permissions page a nightmare and setting permissions somewhere didnt change it elsewhere but then I got the hang of it and realised how powerful it was

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Re: Too Complicated

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Sure, it's a little complicated but it makes figuring things out that much more exciting.

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APTX wrote: What gave you the impression that I'm unpatient?
<Pedantic>"Impatient" is the word you're looking for here. </pedantic>
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Wert wrote:
<Pedantic>"Impatient" is the word you're looking for here. </pedantic>
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