674121 - figure out correct ux for account add in the owa world

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Mozilla Labs :: F1, defect, P1)

Description

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

f1 has an add account panel with a dropdown of available services.  in pre-owa terms, this allows for adding multiple accounts per service.  

This was changed to be the installation mechanism for adding a new owa that supported sharing.  After install, selecting the tab would give you a panel with a login link that would initiate the oauth dance (or other login).  There is also a logout link on the panel (if you've logged in).

Changes made to the install mechanism I made recently cause all share apps to appear in tabs and the add account panel is currently not used.  This is not meant to be the way it works.

My suggestion is that installed apps do not appear as tabs, but do appear in the dropdown on the add accounts panel.  When selecting one, you are prompted to login.  This would get us back to the ability to support multiple accounts per service (though the actual mechanism to support that hasn't been figured out yet).

We need to get ux input for what the right thing to do is.

Comment 1

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

See also bug 681544 for a related issue.

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

f1 is no longer an active project.  delete these messages by searching for: [closing_f1_project_bugs]