Maybe I'm seeing something different than the people who like this? I'm using Minimal Extropy Containers and this is what I might see: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/...

Do other people find this appealing to look at?  Is something wrong with my container files? etc.

In previous posts I mentioned that I really dislike how cluttered the "manage" button makes things look.  I think a nice compromise would be to bring back the downward pointing arrow on the left... and then, when a user hovers over a module, the manage button appears at the top-right of the module.  Otherwise it just looks sloppy.  The downward arrow can be the "indicator" for permission to edit.  Alternatively, it could be a green dot that indicates to the user that they have permission to edit the module.

Adding a context menu with Right Clicks would also be a nice bonus...

e.g. the manage button doesn't have to be in the way all the time except when hovering over a menu.

Post here if you have other ideas. 

Wohoo, I almost restored the old menu functionality by doing the following:

1. Add this to your skin.css file:

.dnnActionMenu{margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;float:left;z-index:906;color:#000;left:-10px;top:10px;width:480px;}
.dnnActionMenuTag{background:#FFFFFF;background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF 0%, #FFFFFF 0%);
   background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#FFFFFF), color-stop(0%,#FFFFFF));
   filter:Alpha(Opacity=0);
   display:block;padding:0px 0px;border:0px #FFFFFF solid;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;line-height:16px;height:16px;font-weight:bold;font-size:11px;min-width:65px;cursor:default;}
    .dnnActionMenuTag img{display:block;float:left;padding-right:0px;}
    .dnnActionMenuTag span{visibility:hidden}

2. Replace images/manage-icn.png with manage-icn.png at http://s2.postimage.org/26ezv1d44/man... or

Thanks Timo.
This unfortunately doesn't work with DNN6... even though it claims to.  At least I could not get it to work on 2 different installs using their installation instructions.

Here's a more polished work around to restore close the original DNN menu's functionality...


1. Install MinimalExtropy Container version 1.0.5 (can be found in DNN 5.6.3 installation package in the Install\Containers folder)
2. Replace images\manage-icn.png with a downward arrow (such as http://www.freeimagehosting.net/1c403 )
3. Paste the following into your skin.css file: 


.dnnActionMenu{margin:0;padding:0;position:absolute;float:left;z-index:906;color:#000;left:-8px;top:6px}
.dnnActionMenuTag{background:#FFFFFF;background:-moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFFFFF 0%, #FFFFFF 0%);
   background:-webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,#FFFFFF), color-stop(0%,#FFFFFF));
   filter:Alpha(Opacity=0);
   display:block;padding:0px 0px;border:none;border-radius:0px;-moz-border-radius:0px;line-height:10px;height:10px;width:10px;font-weight:bold;font-size:8px;min-width:10px;cursor:default;}
    .dnnActionMenuTag img{display:block;float:left;padding-right:0px;}
    .dnnActionMenuTag span{visibility:hidden}