[aur-dev] [PATCH] False 'File Request' buttons for unconfirmed users

[Marcel Korpel]

* Gordian Edenhofer <gordian.edenhofer at gmail.com> (Thu, 11 Jun 2015
00:35:59 +0200):
> On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 20:45 +0200, Marcel Korpel wrote:
>> * Gordian Edenhofer <gordian.edenhofer at gmail.com> (Wed, 10 Jun 2015
>> 19:56:12 +0200):
>>> Displaying flag, notify, vote and file requet buttons for users
>>> which did not authenticate themselves and letting those fake
>>> buttons link to the login page.
>> 
>> I'm not sure I like this user experience, especially as you get 
>> (back)
>> to the home page after login yet, and not to the expected page.
> 
> Good point, I will try to add this functionality pretty soon.
> However my main concern was to at least show the user what options the
> AUR offers, without having to dig through the wiki or contact the
> mailing list.

There's still one thing to bear in mind with these buttons: even if you
click one of them and the redirection after login is implemented, you
get back to the package page and you have to click the button again. I
don't think this is a good user experience.

A solution would be to

* send the login page something that doesn't let it redirect back to
the package page, but to the action page,

or

* don't use these false buttons at all, but always link to the correct
pages, and let those decide whether a user has the permission to do this
action and if not, redirect to the login page: this way the login page
will redirect back to the action page.

I'd go for the second approach.

Please tell what you think about it.

Best, Marcel
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