General discussion

I've just seen the recent Drupal.org survey, and the question "We should improve the "recent posts" page so posts can be filtered by type, category, etc:". This is something I've wanted since I first used Drupal a long time ago, but have never really got around to doing.

/tracker is the most frequently accessed page on our busiest community site, and probably on many others. On most visits to Drupal.org the only two pages I hit are /tracker and /cvs. The information on the tracker page doesn't really provide any context to the node titles it lists except for the type, so I find the experience to be quite detached and random. For example, if I visit /tracker now I see a topic called "Good start. Here's how I polished mine", and I can see that it's an issue. I have no idea what project this issue is linked to, or even what the issue is actually about. Until I view the page, it's just a random lump of content in a list. I don't know where it fits into the overall site structure.

Considering how central the tracker is to a busy Drupal site, I think it deserves some serious attention. If I want to know what's been happening since my last visit, I have to read every random issue in the list to see if it's related to a module that we use or a bug we've encountered, and the notion of sorting forum topics into categories loses all meaning when they're just presented to the use in a large list with "forum topic" as their only anchor.

Can I rename drupal.css with general.css?
where can I change the name?

I have a problem with settings.php file. I want all user with an account can access to mysql db with their some one username and password and not with a common account with all privileges on drupal DB as specified by default in settings.php.
I made a different database and I set only "SELECT" privileges on this. Now, my problem is this:

In settings.php I set:

global $user;
$db_url['default'] = 'mysql://xxx:xxx@localhost/drupal';
$db_url['mydb'] = "mysql://$user->name:$user->pass@localhost/mydb";

I need a CMS that can do all of the following. Please can someone advice me whether Drupal can do this?

* USER-CREATED HOMEPAGES; User-created and edited ‘home pages’ enabled by a ‘user-friendly’ standard template comprising of several fully searchable ‘fields’. ‘Homepages’ can be also alphabetically listed by a matrix combination of 'section' and 'category.

* ARTICLES; The latest article(s) will be dynamically added to the frontpage of the website. Registered users will be able to COMMENT on the articles.

* NEWSLETTER for registered users.

Hello,

is there some module that can do something similar to the feedblitz service?

Thank you, Simon.

I am new to Drupal and love the flexibility, but I'm having a hard time figuring out whether it will meet my needs. Has anyone developed Drupal as the Back Office for managing content on other websites.

I'd like to have Drupal run the login/user access functions and content management, but have the content only show up on read-only websites that do not display any vestage of the Back Office site (ie log-in or forums).