[TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Beta 1a

[Franz Koch]

Hi Ingo,

>> When I saw that the form fields of the pages are now divided into 
>> tabs, I was hoping that this will also happen for tt_content records 
>> as there is/was a patch available (from Steffen I think) for quite 
>> some time now and it would have made sense in order to provide a 
>> consistent backend handling. Now that there is feature freeze, I 
>> suppose this patch will not make it into 4.2 anymore - or is this more 
>> a kind of 'bugfix' for a consistent look and feel?
> 
> depends, my personal feeling is that we would exaggerate it when adding 
> tabs to tt_content, too as there aren't that many fields that can be 
> grouped or that a common across all page types, especially now that we 
> also removed the "advanced" and "not in menu" types.

well, at least the access and appearance settings (except of the hidden 
flag) could be grouped in a tab for easier handling.

>> some more questions:
>> - will the icons in the module headers return again?
> 
> which ones do you mean?

in the old backend, each module group title (web,file,user 
tools,admin,...) in the navigation frame had a icon. These are gone now.

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regards,
Franz