Hi Ted,
Thanks for the explanation, see more in-line
On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:00 AM, Ted Leung wrote:
In proposal 4: the user comes to osaf.us and there are links they
can click on to go to separate log in pages, 1 for admin and 1 for
browsing the home directory.
This makes the initial login experience much more complicated.
I think this is a case where complexity is in the eye of the beholder :)
This way, admins and people using Cosmo for filesharing don't have
to tangle with the end-user Casual Collaborator UI to get where
they want to go.
It seems like achieving this separation is the primary goal
here. But I'm not sure that this is desirable.
For admins: in most web applications that I've used where I had
administrator privileges, you accessed that via a link which only
appeared if you had admin privileges. You logged into the
application like any other user and then you clicked that admin
link to get to the administrator function.
For filesharers: If I was going to file share using Cosmo, most of
the time I would just be mounting a Cosmo collection directly via
the WebDAV functionality of my desktop OS. If I needed the home
collection browser, I would be fine logging into Cosmo and clicking
a link (even if it were some what hard to get to).
ic. So let me repeat what you're saying to make sure I understand it.
+ Cosmo file sharers won't be using the homedir browser very much, so
it's okay if their experience isn't the most streamlined in the world
+ Similarly admin's also won't mind needing to go through the end-
user UI to get to the admin UI
Also there's another use case for the home collection browser -- it
is a valuable tool for us to help debug problems that end users are
having, so I think that Casual Collaborators will also have a need
(not that often I hope) to access the home collection browser.
I imagine that if we have a user who is helping us debug, we would be
in contact with them? and could point them to a url?
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