After looking Drupal 4.7.3, and succesfull install and customize Drupal on W2K Server, OpenSUSE and Fedora Core 5 with Apache 1 & 2, MySQL 3.23, 4 and 5 ..... then I like to share my ideas to improve Drupal:
1. MODULE
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Currently module setting available on Setting menu. I think better put the Setting on the Module itself, mean:
- admin click on the module name then the module setting displayed!
2. BACKEND
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If Drupal provide backend then we can:
- improve security access for admin, since admin do administration things in Backend
- easy to see what is the layout effect after we change some setting. Currently all frontend and backend put in one place, so admin must logged out to see what the website look like if i am not using admin rights.
- usually admin page no need to translate, because some vocabulary better not translate to admin's native language, such as: block, module, themes, etc. so we can have 2 translations: for frontend and backend. It's also help admin to understand better because most manual in english and has clear meaning than locale language (because some Computer Vocabularaty not clear when translate to locale language).
3. EDITOR
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Improve Drupal editor, let's user easy to create article with any fonts, size or color they need by mouse click rather than type the html tag manually. This is NOT mean we must use WYSIWYG Editor, we can use a technique that used by Simpleboard or Akocomment. I hope some day I can increase my Drupal skill so I can help the core team, but now, if Drupal team need to know how to do such things in Simpleboard/Akocomment then I will help to explain more. Since Drupal stuck to "slim" and not yet accept to adding "only" 300 KB for a WYSIWYG Editor then need an other way to make user easier write article without manually write HTML tag.