Hard to call it a "conclusion" when there's so little input (either from people who are affected or people willing to work on the bug), but sure, I'll summarize what Ruben and I have arrived at in MH-9175 (currently assigned to Greg, though).
Judy On Oct 16, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Tobias Wunden wrote: > 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] > _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
