[Design] [Cosmo] Account activation redux

[Brian Moseley]

On 1/4/07, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
> I think Priscilla means that every user starts out with a Collection,
> even if they haven't subscribed to any shares.

what collection do they start out with? are you talking about the
"Cosmo" collection that gets autocreated by the ui?

i've always thought that "Cosmo" collection was a little bogus. i feel
like the user, upon logging in for the first time, should see a page
that says "you have no collections. you should share one with
chandler, or add somebody else's shared collection, or import a
calendar from another application, or make a new empty collection".

of course standalone users would go "huh? what's a collection? i want
a calendar!" but that's a matter of education on our terminology, i
suppose.

> We clearly need this. I'm wondering though how in the future, this
> will reconcile itself with Chandler users who have Cosmo accounts.
> For the consultative Chandler user, the model clearly needs to be
> different. Otherwise, they will accidentally add stuff to their Cosmo
> collection, which won't show up in their local Chandler repositories.

yes.