[Design] Manage Share/Collection Sharing dialog

[Grant Baillie]

On 29 Jun, 2006, at 09:32, Mimi Yin wrote:

> .Mac is the name of Apple's sharing service. The .Mac service  
> probably runs off many different servers? but the user only knows  
> about the .Mac service. It is unlikely that a single user will have  
> different accounts on different .Mac servers. So there's little  
> point in distinguishing between individual servers.
>
> Mindspring
> Earthlink
> Verizon
> Flickr
>
> are all examples of services.

Currently, I don't think there's a way (short of making guesses based  
on domain names). I could imagine a future where parcels (like our  
current flickr, Amazon, ... demos) implement a Service, and that  
contains a displayable name.

--Grant

>>> WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS CONFUSING:
>>> Collection name: My calendar
>>> Sharing account: Sharing
>>>
>>> PROPOSED CHANGE:
>>> Collection name: My calendar
>>> Shared via: Cosmo Sharing Service (or whatever we call the  
>>> service in the future)
>>>
>>> Q. Can we figure out the server or service name for subscribers  
>>> as well?
>>
>> We certainly know the host name (e.g. "cosmo- 
>> demo.osafoundation.org") and could display that. I'm not sure what  
>> you mean by "service name", though.
>>
>> --Grant