joemcl
"Extension Icons": what it does- working only with components- it does very well, although its icons are very small (someone more clever than I could probably figure out how to enlarge them). It was just too limited for my uses.
CQI also has its limits. For instance, I have J Cal Pro installed, and I wanted to set up an icon to go directly into the Events Manager- no luck (again- I'm a newbie- maybe someone here can help me with it!). But it beats using the main menu.
Nevertheless, I was able to set up a Control Panel that has the ONLY icons they need- no more navigating through the main menu.
One thing alone makes it worthwhile- I have a big, fat Global Checkin icon for those inevitable, irritating times when you accidentally use the Back arrow on the browser instead of X/Close/Cancel. It is a very useful program- my thanks to the developers.
Hello joemcl,
general i want to ask all users to go to the forum at JoomlaCode and post their suggestions or problems their.
About the 'limits': beside of the pre defined links (usually components) you can define every link to every component/module/plugin. Just watch browser bar and copy the link you see there.
Add an icon (or only text) - thats it.
Even you could assign CQI to any other position (new feature since 2.1.0) - for example 'cpanel' and voila you will have all icons 'presented by CQI' there - and the standard quickicon module can stay at the position 'cpanel'.
But the best new feature (also since 2.1.0) is to disable the 'admin menu' and show CQI only the defined usergroups or even one (1) user (e.g. a manager, not admin).
Many possibilities ......