Thinking about admin theme

[Joss]

When Matthew and I were trying to do stuff with Seblod/Joomla, I created a front end admin system for content management (not other functions).

They way I did it was simply to make sure you can work a route through things. So you would have a nice button saying NEW+ with a drop down so you could select a new what, and another buttons saying MANAGE which would take you to a list of things to manage with some filters and column sorting.

It was not great, but you couldn't get lost because that was all there was.

To translate that into PW, that would mean the NEW+ buttons would have (for those with permissions) New Template, New Field, New User and then New Whatever which is added by the admin and is specific to the site.

The only thing after that is once you have created your NEW thing, you can easily Duplicate, Delete, Close, Create another identical New Thing or go for lunch, just with one click. Another nice little drop down perhaps.

Without changing the existing layout at all, it would just speed things up a little. Not hugely, but just enough perhaps.

Joss

[Joss]

The admin topnav is simple frontend code in the admin template default.php, that's why you can't make it a hook

That's why I could implement such nice dropdown menu and module menu in teflon.

Ah right, I see what you mean.

I will catch up eventually, honest!