[Design] "restore published shares.." menu option

[Aparna Kadakia]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> I agree we should up the ante on maintenance since 'Restore  
> Published Shares' has proven to be a useful data recovery tool.
>
> However, I think that's a separate issue from where it belongs in  
> the menus.
>
> I think of the features in the 'end-user menus' as functionality  
> users need access to assuming that Chandler is functioning 'as  
> expected'.
>
> Even though we expect 'Restore Published Shares' to be used by end- 
> users, I still think of it as a hack...a tool we point people to  
> when something has gone wrong.
>
> A different way to look at this is: Does this need to be a menu  
> item? Perhaps we should automatically start the restore-published- 
> shares process when users fill in sharing account information,  
> assuming there are already published shares. This is how IMAP  
> accounts work.

Yes, it doesn't have to be a menu item. But I don't exactly  
understand what you mean by  "we should automatically start the  
restore-published-shares process when users fill in sharing account  
information"? Do you mean the list to be available thru a button from  
the accounts dialog, and you can selectively pick the ones you want  
to restore. Sorry, I am a little unclear on that.

Basically, I don't have a strong opinion on where we put this  
functionality but it would be nice to have it accessible more easily.

>
> Mimi
>
>
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:
>
>> I was probably one of the people who pushed for it to be under Tools,
>> but I will give a +1 vote to move it somewhere more prominent because
>> I've actually told two end-users to use it recently.
>>
>> On 9/4/07, Aparna Kadakia <aparna at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I want to propose moving the "Restore Published Shares" out of the
>>> tools menu
>>> into the one of the main menu items like 'Share'.
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