On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 10:25:02 AM UTC-6, Thomas Leo wrote: > > I've opened a ticket [1] to implement the popups in the admin as modal >> instead >> of windows. I'm no UI/UX expert but modals are more or less the standard >> today, >> windows looks like a relic from the 2000s. > > > If it ain't broke don't fix it. The django admin is awesome, the reason it > hasn't changed much is because it doesn't need to. Google.com's home page > still more or less looks the same as it did in 2000. >
The admin isn't "broke" in that is still does what it was designed to do in 2005 or whatever. I don't believe that fact supports your assertion that it doesn't need changed, and even most of the Django maintainers agree the existing UI isn't "awesome." Functional, to a specific end, yes, but not "awesome." Nearly everyone I know that uses Django agrees that the admin interface could use improvement. We simply stopped including the admin in every project we build—and I mean deleting every admin.py and taking admin out of urls.py—because it invariably causes more problems than it solves. If we have to do anything database-related, we either do it directly or use the Django shell. If clients want any kind of "admin"-like dashboard or whatever, we build it from scratch. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/23deeacb-b344-4c32-a1d3-7ed2a4964ef2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
