I'm not as opposed to showing globally unique identifiers as you are. I'm also not optimistic about having good, fluid drag-and-drop in a web interface. Doing good, clean drag-and-drop in the web would be a major undertaking.
That said, a "good user experience" for Tahoe seems to be creeping farther away rather than drawing nearer. jody ---- - Think carefully. - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius) - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo) On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > Jody Harris wrote: > > Barriers continued.... > > > > These are comments from my users: > > > > (Speaking of command line...) "cryptic they are. They need to move > more > > of the functionality into the web gui and do automatical aliasing and > show > > that in the web GUI. At least the top and maybe first trees in the > > structure." > > > > "...why not include a web app - complete with logins and groups?" > > > > "Interesting decision not to include [a web wrapper]...seems an > obvious > > oversight?" > > > > These users seem to have very little patience for understanding the > broader > > context of what tahoe was designed for. > > > > Perhaps I'm just trying to roll this out in the context of the wrong > users. > > I suspect that any user will have similar reactions to a tool that > shoves globally unique identifiers in his face. > > What I interpret these users as requesting, when they ask for a "web > app" or a "web wrapper", that does "automatical aliasing" is a web page > that they can log into (thus obtaining their root capability) and on > that web page they see the "aliases" (petnames, links) for the > capabilities that they have already created, and they can drag and drop > files onto that web page, thereby creating more capabilities, > represented by more "aliases" (user petnames) > > I think "automatical aliasing" may perhaps mean the same thing as I mean > when I say, "never show an end user a globally unique identifier." > > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > tahoe-dev@allmydata.org > http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev >
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