It seems like we came to a conclusion? If so, it would be helpful to have these agreements formulated in a ticket, everyone should feel free to step up :-)
Tobias On 10.10.2012, at 18:55, Judy Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a reasonable sol'n (it's not schizo behavior to any individual user); > I'd suggest if we do this, that we remove the Media Gallery link from the > upper right watch page (since it's just a duplicate link), and provide a tool > tip for the logo. > Like my solution #4, it likely requires a little more development work (i.e. > looking at user's permissions to determine where the link should go); anybody > available to do this? > > Judy > > > On Oct 2, 2012, at 4:27 AM, Rubén Pérez wrote: > >> 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 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
