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Ticket #366 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Empty Admin menus are confusing

Reported by: bharat Owned by: tnalmdal
Priority: major Milestone: 3.0 Beta 2
Version: 3.0 Beta 1 Keywords: ui
Cc:

Description

In alpha 4, we created Admin > Statistics and Admin > Content menus. But without Akismet, the Statistics menu is empty so for beta 1 we now create Statistics inside the Akismet module.

And if you don't have the comment, watermark and tag modules installed, the Admin > Content menu is empty so that's confusing for users too.

We should either inject a "this menu intentionally left blank" item for empty submenus, or we should hide empty menus. Pros of an "intentionally blank" placeholder is that it lets module devs know where they can hook in. Cons are that it confuses users to have extra useless menus.

Change History

Changed 8 months ago by bharat

  • keywords ui added

Changed 8 months ago by tnalmdal

  • owner set to tnalmdal
  • status changed from new to accepted

Changed 8 months ago by tnalmdal

  • status changed from accepted to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

Fixed with: http://bit.ly/LHjYU and http://bit.ly/ffVg4
Moved the creation of the Settings menu back to gallery_menu::admin.
After the root menu has been created and populated, scan the menu looking for empty elements and remove them.

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