[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Design] [Cosmo] Login-related workflows update

[Brian Moseley]

(please keep this conversation on cosmo-dev - it's not a ui design issue)

On 11/7/06, Bobby Rullo <br at osafoundation.org> wrote:

> I've read this, and your proposal on the Cosmo list.
>
> it seems like a fair amount of work and I don't see the benefit. It's
> not like we have such a heavy-weight application that much is to be
> gained by un-deploying different parts of it.

well, people have asked for the ability to shut off different parts of
the ui. some have asked for no calendar ui. others have asked for no
browsing ui. jared has even noted a preference for no ui at all (tho
not in the context of osaf.us of course).

> We can get the same uri
> namespaces you suggest within a single web-app. And if we don't want
> the links between the different webapp sub-sections....we can just
> get rid of them, and make people go to "/cosmo/admin" for admin
> related tasks and "/cosmo/pim" for pim related tasks. We could have
> all the appearances of  separate web-apps without all the work.

that is true, but it doesn't address the above concern, which we had
heretofore planned to solve with server-wide configuration toggles.

> I basically just am concerned with yet-another-big-arch-change that
> will slow down momentum, but not really gain us much.

yea the amount of effort is definitely a concern.