[Framework-Team] Re: PLIP 228: Restore 'Add Item..' menu on all pages

Martin Aspeli optilude at gmx.net
Sun Sep 28 11:47:41 UTC 2008


Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I guess I'm the first one. I want to propose PLIP 228 for Plone 3.3.
> 
> I feel that removing the removal of the 'Add Item' dropdown in many
> places in Plone 3 is a regression in behaviour, and makes adding content
> a lot more cumbersome. The PLIP has so far only received positive
> responses from several people.
> 
> The full PLIP can be found here:
> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/228

Perhaps we could make it optional?

I'm not normally one for having too many options in the UI, but I know 
that some people were quite confused about the old behaviour too. It 
looks as if you can "add a page to a page" when you see the "Add new" 
menu on a page, and it blurs the distinction between folderish and 
non-folderish objects. For example, I've seen people who expect that if 
they're looking at /path/to/a-page and they add a new page using the 
"add new" menu, they expect the URL to be /path/to/a-page/another-page.

(The correct solution to do that, of course, has to do with setting a 
default-page on the folder, which is confusing in its own right, but 
that's a different debate).

Martin

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