I think we should have that "schizophrenic" logo, but instead of having different behaviours depending on the machine (admin, engage), we should have different behaviours depending on the user. If the user has "admin" rights, then send him to the welcome page. If the user has no "admin" privileges, then send him/her to the media module.
Or is that still too messy? Rubén Pérez TELTEK Video Research www.teltek.es 2012/10/1 Judy Stern <[email protected]> > To those who plan to expose the Matterhorn Media Module to learners: > > Currently the Matterhorn logo (in the upper left with tooltip "Back to > Opencast Matterhorn Welcome Page") links to (or is supposed to link to) the > Matterhorn Welcome page. This makes complete sense for users who have > access to the admin UI (in which the logo always links to the Welcome > page), but not so much to those users who only have access to Engage. > (MH-9175 is the bug that started this conversation.) > > How many of you actually leave the ootb Matterhorn logo exposed to your > Engage users? (i.e. don't rebrand with your own institution's logo and > don't change the href?) > > If some of you do leave it exposed to users (as is), we should come up > with a solution. > I think it's a bad idea to have a single schizophrenic logo (i.e.for users > that do have admin access, having different behaviors depending on whether > one is in Engage or Admin); instead, here are some simple alternatives: > 1) Create a new logo to be used in Engage (maybe by compositing the > existing logo with text such as "Media Gallery") and have it link to the > Media Gallery (which is essentially "Home" for engage-only users). I'm no > graphic artist, but I think I can handle the compositing (if I can get > ahold of the logo source file). > 2) Remove the logo altogether on Engage pages. > 3) Remove the logo and, on the watch pages, move the link to the Media > Gallery from its current location next to the Search box to the left (i.e. > replaces the logo); I think we should drop the "Go to" from link name, btw, > regardless of where the link lives. > 4) Create an alternative Matterhorn Welcome page to link to for those who > don't have access to the Admin UI, but maintain the behavior for Admin UI > users of the logo going to the "full" Welcome page. This is probably not > quite as simple as the other solutions since it has to look at the user's > permissions to determine where the link should go; would anyone be willing > to take this on? (fwiw, I like this solution best, since it allows admin > users to continue to move between the applications more or less seamlessly) > > Your thoughts? Other ideas? > > Judy > > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users >
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