Ticket #366 (closed defect: fixed)
Empty Admin menus are confusing
| Reported by: | bharat | Owned by: | tnalmdal |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 3.0 Beta 2 |
| Version: | 3.0 Beta 1 | Keywords: | ui |
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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.