On Nov 17, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Mimi Yin 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 :)
That's probably true -- I'm mostly trying to think of other
applications/web applications where you'd see this kind of
behavior. I can't think of any off the top of my head -- that
doesn't mean that there aren't any, but it does make me think that
this sort of thing is relatively rare. Either that or my memory is
really going downhill...
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
Right. I'm not sure that Brian would agree with me, though.
+ Similarly admin's also won't mind needing to go through the end-
user UI to get to the admin UI
Yep.
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?
Yes, we would probably be in contact with them and could point them
to a url. That wouldn't be the case for people with their own
private cosmo installations, though.
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