On Nov 4, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Mimi Yin wrote: My bad, I kept going on the bug when I should have been posting comments to the list ;o) Hi Mimi, I think it is worth taking a bit of time to get this right for preview. I agree that we want a unified concept of go online / go offline. It would make no sense to me to have the ability to take email offline while sharing is still online. It should be one action for Preview where go offline takes everything offline. That is the easiest concept for users to understand and is also the easiest task to accomplish from a development standpoint. It is also the origins of bug 6553 where developers wanted the ability to test Chandler without network operations via a --offline flag. If based on user feedback something more complex is desired then we can revise for Chandler 1.0. It seems to me the concept we have for Sharing of taking specific collections on or off line may be the wrong terminology and thus refining will make this decision clearer. When selecting a collection for sharing there is the take online / offline toggle menu item. But really what one is saying is no longer sync this specific collection. Yes the collection is 'offline', but the rest of the app is online which I think is a confusing concept for novice computer users. By changing the sharing verbiage to better reflect what is happening it may clear up the offline / online discussion. We are not taking sharing offline but are telling the sharing service to not sync a specific share. Again, the rest of sharing is online as are the other Chandler network services. Instead, the wording could be something like "Disable syncing of 'In' collection' and 'Enable syncing of 'In' collection'. Changing this wording paves the way for the addition of a 'Go Offline' File menu item that takes the entire app (email, sharing, rss, etc) offline. That's my two cents :) -Brian
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