[TYPO3-hci] Let's try to aks the users!

[Tapio Markula]

Michael Scharkow wrote:
> JoH wrote:
> 
>> "less ways to do it" doesn't go well with "great variety.
>> IMHO it's one of the major advantages of TYPO3 that there is always more
>> than one way leading to the same goal.
> 
> 
> This may be okay for templating etc. but for UI it just means 
> inconsistency.
> 
>> I would prefer "more possibilities to disable/enable different ways of 
>> doing
>> things".
>> This way we could have a fully blown feature rich TYPO3 for the power 
>> user
>> as well as the minimalistic one way solution for the anxious newbie.

agreed

> The problem is that 99% of the end users don't know or care that button 
> X can actually be disabled, etc. I think even in this list when people 
> complain about the BE being too complex for beginners, most of them 
> haven't actually seen a properly configured BE (which *can* be done with 
> TSConfig).

It doesn't offer as default enough possibilities. After simplyfying with
default TS config, there are still reduncandy. In order to take all 
reducandy off from Web > Page module and Web > List I
made tm_contentaccess, which I can simplyfy more.
I made some other interface related changes

* tabbed function menu (Quick Edit etc. as tabs; with certain 
condintions Windows XP style tabs)

* TemplaVoila style Columsn view

> Right, I find the actual Joomla UI not very intuitive, but I like the 
> colorful buttons ;)

That's an issues of skins. You can change to skin, which uses 
Mambo-style buttons. I made a skin, which uses can use the same skin, 
but they can define their own module icons (just default module icons 
can be changed, not all buttons).