[Chandler-dev] "Sharing with Yourself" versus "Sharing with Others"

[Mimi Yin]

https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8928

One of the most common sources of user questions and issues is the  
lack of differentiation between "Sharing with yourself" and "Sharing  
with others". It affects both new user ramp up (usability) and day-to- 
day usefulness.

Not surprisingly, this issue has turned out to be a sticky issue in  
the re-architecture. Jeffrey has pointed out that really, there needs  
to be considerable server work in order for "Sharing with yourself"  
to truly work smoothly.

So I thought I would take the initial step of outlining what the  
design requirements are, and then we can work backwards to figure out  
what our implementation options are.

1. Users need to be able to share ALL attributes with themselves, but  
keep some attributes private when sharing with others. e.g. Read/ 
Unread/Needs reply status, when alarm's pop-up, BCC, private  
annotations?

2. We shouldn't display any "created by / edited by" info in the Who  
column if a user is only sharing with themselves, but we should  
display if

I can imagine ways we can address both 1 and 2, from just the desktop  
side:

For #1, we could expand the "Sharing Filters" functionality so that  
publishers can share everything with themselves, but present  
subscribers with a more limited set of sharing filter options.

For #2, we could perhaps figure out a way to only display cr/ed by  
info in the Who column if the item in question or another item in the  
collection has been created or edited by an user other than the  
original publisher of the collection.

However, perhaps it would be easier / more prudent to address this  
issue from the server side.

3. This is not really a "Sharing with Yourself" versus "Sharing with  
Others" issue, but it's relevant from a user perspective and may  
involve server work, so I will mention here: When you configure your  
Chandler Desktop with your Chandler Server/Hub account, Chandler  
Desktop should set itself up to automatically keep the 2 in sync -  
including the Out of the Box collections, subscriptions, collection  
colors and collection ordering.

Thoughts? Comments?

Mimi