[Design] [Cosmo] Login-related workflows update

[Matthew Eernisse]

It doesn't seem to make much sense to me either to put the link to the 
browser in account settings. Putting those two together is blurring the 
line between 'prefs/settings' and 'content I have on the server.' 
'Content on the server' is the same stuff whether you look at it in the 
collection browser, or in the normal UI view.

If we're going to be implementing actual dropdown menus anyway, why 
would we not put the link to the home collection browser in one of the 
menus, like you would with a normal app? That might make more sense than 
blurring together conceptually unrelated items for a sort of short-term 
convenience.

This also applies to the idea of asking people to choose which UI they 
want before they log in seems kind of clunky and unnecessarily 
complicated. Why not just add/remove items in a drop-down menu?


Matthew


Mimi Yin wrote:
> Would putting this in the 'Settings' dialog  make more sense if we 
> renamed 'Settings' to 'Your account'?
> 
> On Nov 17, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Brian Moseley wrote:
> 
>> On 11/17/06, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>> Priscilla, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the thinking behind
>>> providing access to the home directory UI through settings is that an
>>> advanced and technical Casual Collaborator would be comfortable
>>> manipulating the contents of their account (e.g. adding and revoking
>>> tickets, adding and removing collections) through the home directory
>>> browser UI.
>>
>> i don't see how this relates to settings in any way.
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