Its been a long term objective for a few of us in pmdev to renovate User Settings. The node is too big with too much clutter which makes it hard to use and fairly annoying to work with. Some of this work is already done and some of it is partially done, with all of it up for reconsideration pretty much, at least in my opinion. Currently we have the following different pages involved in user settings in some way or another (its a copy of this list of user_superdoc's at the time of posting)

1072 User Settings - viewcode
14444 Signature Settings - viewcode
17003 Display Settings - viewcode
25185 Nodelet Settings - viewcode
50763 Theme Settings - viewcode
192270 Timezone Settings - viewcode
366609 Personal Nodelet Settings - viewcode
450961 Node Display Settings - viewcode

The general plan is to redistribute User Settings across these other nodes, possibly renaming some of them if we feel its necessary. Node Display Settings and Signature Settings are the one ive put the most work into so far, but even there im not convinced im grouping things correctly. Display Settings is an earlier attempt that as far as I know is unused, and i was stupidly unaware of when I created Node Display Settings. Theme Settings seems to me to overlap with the idea of Node Display Settings and Display Settings. Timezone Settings, Personal Nodelet Settings, and Nodelet Settings all seem stable to me, although i think some of User Settings could be migrated to Nodelet Settings.

Anyway, the point here is that its not clear (to me at least) how we should group the settings as pages. A kick the conversation off kind of proposal might be:

Signature Settings
All the stuff related to how the users nodes look when they are intially created. Maybe should be renamed to be more general but i have no idea what.
Section Settings
All the stuff related to sections. Things like how many per section, FP stuff, count styles etc.
Display Settings
All the stuff related to how the user sees the site in terms of style and presentation. The CSS and theme stuff goes here as do HTML filtering and tag parsing rules (more or less what Node Display Settings is)
Nodelet Settings
Pretty well everything related to nodelets, with Personal Nodelet Settings and a hypothetical Free Nodelet Settings excluded as special standalone cases.
User Settings
Generic user settings that dont nicely fall into the other buckets. I imagine that the pmdev related stuff would show up here and maybe a few of the other special settings like node filtering and stuff like that.

Anyway, thats just to start the discussion off... :-)

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In reply to Renovating User Settings by demerphq

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