[Design] Updated 0.7 sharing spec

[Mimi Yin]

There's an issue we want to iron out before putting it into the  
Sharing spec.

In 0.6, we assumed that users were only using the Calendar App area.  
As a result, we designed the Sharing Publish dialog in a way that  
made it possible for users to share calendars without having to worry  
about the other Kinds of Items that could live in their Collections.

Moving forward however, do we want to change our assumptions? Move  
away from a calendar-centric model and assume that users will want to  
share Collections across all App areas?

There are 2 dialogs below. The top dialog is what you see when you  
share the first time.
+ If you're in the Calendar App, Chandler assumes you're only sharing  
the collection Calendar
+ If you're in the Task App, Chandler assumes you're only sharing the  
collection Task list
+ If you're in the Mail App, Chandler assumes you're only sharing the  
collection Mailbox
+ If you're in the All App, Chandler assumes you're sharing All App  
areas in the collection

The bottom dialog is how users can Manage a collection and add more  
App areas to the shared collection

Priscilla shared the Calendar portion of one of her collections and  
assumed that she had shared the entire collection. When she went to  
restore her shares in Alpha2, she was confused that her Tasks didn't  
show up as well.

Which makes me wonder, should we make it clearer to users that each  
collection can be split up into 3 App areas: (Mailbox, Task list,  
Calendar) and that users have control over which of those App areas  
they share?

In short, should we be presenting the 'Manage share' dialog to users  
in place of the 'Collection Sharing' dialog?

Mimi
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On Jun 5, 2006, at 7:23 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:

> I updated the existing 0.7 sharing spec
>
> + The background sync work has now moved to the Alpha3 section.
> + We have spec'd out some changes for Alpha4 which include  
> persistence of a user's sharing world (published/subscribed).
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> http://svn.osafoundation.org/docs/trunk/docs/specs/rel0_7/ 
> Sharing-0.7.html
>
> Sheila
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