[TYPO3-dev] Announcing TYPO3 4.2 Beta 1a

[Steffen Kamper]

"Franz Koch" <typo.removeformessage at fx-graefix.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1202472752.20464.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
> 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.
>

there is a pending patch for this in core list

>>> 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.
>

this was removed for collapse/expand to be more clean
(if you look to old BE it was the same icon as one of the submodules)

vg  Steffen