[TYPO3-core] RFC: Make the "Doc" module a sysext

[Benjamin Mack]

Hey everybody,

this is something I really like to see go in 4.2. The initial idea came 
from Jens Hoffmann, I really think it's useful and told Ingo yesterday 
about it.
I don't know if you all like it or not, since it moves some features 
that were there forever from back in the days (pre 3.6 ;-)) and 
therefore could break some backwards compatibility (If not, it's great 
too :-)). I still hope that we can ship this with the 4-series that's 
why I give it a try here...

So, what is Benni talking about?
* I think that the "Doc" module on the right menu is used little and 
that it should be included in the "User" module as a submodule since 
it's the list of documents that the User opened before. (so, therefore 
it gets renamed from "doc" to "user_doc").
* Also, I want to make it a sysext in the same approach, so we have one 
less thing in the "typo3/mod/" directory. Plus: it's easy to remove that 
ext at some point (if somebody would feel we don't need it anymore).
* Also, I think that the name "Doc." is totally unusable. Nobody knows 
what is going on unless you click on it and figure it out for yourself. 
That's why I think "Documents" or "Open Documents" would be way more 
appropriate and understandable for people. Of course, we can change that 
label.

OK, what do we have here?

a) "user_doc.png"
a screenshot on how it looks like.

b) To try it out:
"T3X_user_doc-0_0_1-z-200709182108" is the new extension adds the new 
functionality as an ext. Also apply the patch 
20070918_mod_user_doc.patch, which basically removes the old (hard 
coded) "doc" module and adds the new "user_doc" ext as default.

c) The whole pack (no binaries):
"20070918_mod_user_doc_all.patch" does all the changes to your system, 
although you need to provide the extension binary files "ext_icon.gif" 
and "mod/document.gif" (they are the same) which you can get from 
"typo3/mod/doc/document.gif".

Certainly there are a couple of lines where the "doc" is still hard 
coded, just let me know if you know one and I'll fix it. Also, I don't 
know if I made my approach right (still a "core newbie") with the 
translation etc. Once, everything works and the new one is under version 
control, I'll also remove the following files from SVN:

D      mod/doc
D      mod/doc/document.gif
D      mod/doc/clear.gif
D      mod/doc/conf.php
D      sysext/lang/locallang_mod_doc.xml


-- 
greetings,
benni.
-SDG-
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