On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 17:16:16 -0700, "Mimi Yin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Aparna, > > When you fill out your IMAP account info in your mail client. All your > IMAP folders and messages get synced automatically. > > You can think of Chandler Hub accounts in the same way. When you set > up a Chandler Hub account, we can automatically kick off re-setting up > all the collections you've published to Chandler Hub in Chandler > Desktop. > > We could pop-up the dialog that lets you choose what collections you > want to sync to Chandler Desktop, but I'm not even sure that's > necessary. > > Mimi > Hi, Apologies for my not engaging earlier in this thread. After a bit of time with the new "Automatically Restored Published Shares" feature, I have some feedback. It's only somewhat nice that it's automatic, and it's a little too automatic from my perspective. To review, the current implementation begins to restore ones published shares immediately after one clicks the OK button to close the Accounts dialog (after having entered username and password info for a Chandler Hub account). There is no warning that this is what will happen, and no option to cancel the operation. Given the process intensity of the restore, Chandler becomes very sluggish if responsive at all. This could be alarming or confusing at best for users. Clues that a sync is occurring include (on Windows XP) the processor jumping to 100% (with the familiar whirring of the laptop processor cooling fan), and eventually in the sidebar, the appearance of a familiar collection underneath the OOTB collections.
I appreciate the good intentions, but this new implementation is a significant loss in flexibility for the user from the previous implementation. At a minimum, it would be very helpful if the user would be prompted [Ok][Cancel] about whether to proceed with the restore. And, if the user proceeds with the restore, it would be very helpful to have presented next the list of published shares that are available to restore. Perhaps an "All Shares" checkbox could be added to this dialog to streamline the path for those who really want all published shares restored right then. I typically do not want all my published shares on the Hub to be restored to every other computer on which I install Chandler. For example, on some computers, I want only certain collections that primarily contain events like family and school calendars. Often, I just don't need all of the collections restored, and (if I already have my Venti Gold Coast) would rather not wait while 15-20 collections restored before being able to proceed. Other times, for dogfooding, I would like to try and reproduce a bug with a collection or two that I would be able to share in a repository snapshot should I succeed in reproducing the condition. I used to be able to selectively pick the collections I wanted restored. Unless I'm missing something, now it seems to be all or nothing. As I have in the past, I suppose I could create a second user account on the Hub and use it to subscribe to a subset of my own collections, but in comparison to the simpler path available previously, this seems like a force-fit. There's an interesting intersection with another relatively recent change, that is, now when one deletes a published collection in Chandler Desktop, Chandler also will delete this collection from the Hub. I guess I also missed this thread on the list or something. And then I foolishly didn't read the friendly warning dialog from Chandler that told me exactly what it was going to do. All of my collections are intact on my "master" instance of Chandler, thank goodness, but knowing this still didn't prevent a small "amygdala hijack" when I first noticed the half- dozen collections missing from my Hub account and realized my error. I will have to go find the relevant thread. I don't understand the utility to the user of automatically deleting published shares from the Hub (even if the user is warned). Something like a [Yes][No] option for the Hub delete operation would be quite a bit more useful. I'm sending this note to the Design list, because that is where the "restore published shares.." thread seems to have lived. If this would be better discussed on the Users list, please feel free to repost, or let me know if you would like me to do that. Cheers, Andre _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
