We've all used the admin_menu module for quite some time in Drupal, yet personally there are several things that made me jump ship from Admin Menu as soon as the first alpha release of Admin was available from Development Seed. I find admin_menu clunky, providing too many options, and always popping down menus every time I hover past the menu in the top of the browser window.

The only drawback I ever had when using the Admin module was the ability to quickly flush caches from the interface, which was one of my favorite tools in admin_menu. My solution was to take some of the great code from admin_menu, and port it to a more usable system for my own purposes. I had a release that was working with the first release of Admin that created menu items, and placed them with the admin group of items, and had to use the menu translate hook in order to append destinations to the menu items. It was a bit clunky, but worked for me on several sites, including this one.

However, with the release of the Admin 2 module, and the Rubik administration theme, I needed to redo the module so that it would operate as a custom block in the admin toolbar interface much in the way that the Devel module does in the demonstration.

In creating this module, I'm not clear yet wether it should be something that once perfected is wrapped into the Admin 2 module, or something that should be released in the Drupal contrib repository, so for now I'm hosing the project on Github just so I have more than a working copy floating around in a couple of my projects.