[sldev] RFC: design proposal for VWR-1071

[Cypren Christenson]

On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Philip Rosedale wrote:

> Automating the storage and retrieval of different avatar names seems  
> great!  BUT... making the login screen more complicated seems really  
> bad.   I have an incredibly hard time getting behind adding any  
> controls to that screen!

I completely understand your desire to avoid increasing the UI  
complexity. For whatever it may be worth, I should probably note that  
the default state of the controls on that page ("remember name"  
checked, "remember password" unchecked by default unless a password  
was previously saved) leads to identical behavior with the current  
login screen. I designed it that way in an attempt at reducing user- 
retraining issues -- if you use the same sequence of behaviors you  
currently do on that screen and ignore the changes, you should get the  
same results. In this way, while the complexity of functionality may  
increase, the complexity of user behavior should not unless the user  
notices and decides to experiment with the new controls.

Additionally, while I could be completely off-base, I was hoping that  
the paradigm of "remember username," "remember password" (and often,  
"automatically log in") options would be familiar to most users from  
many websites (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo) and communications clients (AIM,  
MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, etc).

Since I'd rather not submit anything to JIRA while we're still  
actively discussing core design, I've gone ahead and posted the patch  
(against SNOW trunk r.2548) in its current form at:
	
	http://cypren.net/files/login_history.diff

If people would like to grab it and play with it to help shape the  
feedback and discussion, it would be much appreciated. I've also  
created a new issue in JIRA (SNOW-129) for this feature-add as it  
applies to Snowglobe.
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