[TYPO3-hci] Less ways to do it...

[Michael Scharkow]

Kasper Skårhøj wrote:

> If Scharkows main point is that users do things they shouldn't because 
> they can, then I suggest that the tools they use - the Page Module - 
> doesn't allow record creation on shortcut pages by giving no links to 
> the page in such cases. Technically it is still possible.
> 
> Lets _steer_ users in the right direction instead of setting up 
> roadblocks we will fall over ourselves.

I don't care for implementation details for now, so even pagetypes may 
stay technically. I'd only appreciate a stricter enforcement of what can 
reasonably be done with what type (configured with TS config) and more 
consistency.

Since conceptually pages, shortcuts and sysfolders are *very* different 
things we should offer to explicitly create any one of them with one 
click, just like any other record.

Even in UNIX you do not create a file first and then change it into a 
directory - you explicitly create a directory although technically it's 
almost the same as a file or a symlink ...

That's what I have in mind about getting rid of pagetypes: Turn one page 
object with X types into Y (seemingly) different objects that may be 
implemented with the same table columns or not, that's a matter of 
abstraction.

Cheers,
Michael