Re: [ANNOUNCE] navigation.module

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Jeremy Andrews wrote:
>   Some months ago I began working on the "navigation.module", to replace
> my "taxnav.module".  A few key implementation details were never
> resolved, so I dropped the project for a lengthy period of time.  As 4.4
> approaches, I realized I need it working, so I've gone ahead and
> finished it enough to be useful.

Works great.  It is flexible and intuitive.

The fact that there are several different navigation and menu related
modules in our contributions repository indicates that this is an area in
need of work.  I hope we can bundle our forces and work towards a good
menu system for inclusion in Drupal 4.5.0 (not Drupal 4.4.0).

Does your module supersede any of the existing modules in the
contributions repository?  If not, what needs to be done to supersede
them?  Superseded modules should probably be removed so we can focus on
one or two such modules, and eventually, add the best one to core.

While the navigation module is really nice in its current state, I'd start
working towards better integration with core so that it could be used to
manipulate the 'default navigation menu' and such that it could re-use the
rendering code in menu.inc (or vice versa).  Quite a few people want to
add, delete, rename or reorder menu items in the default navigation menu
so integration seems to be key.

As far as integration is concerned, I think we should focus on the 'user
menus' (eg. 'recent posts', 'my account') and not on the 'administration
menus'.  It simplifies the problem a LOT.

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