I don't know where the discussion about navigation
design is supposed to take place. In my opinion, it
is important to clarify the status and role of some
pages and areas:
- a "community page" that Carl called a key piece of the
system
https://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=138348
- a page area that other systems call "Links for YOU"
(customized to specific target audiences)
- a similar area for "MY links" (personalized by oneself)
Unless these roles a clearly assigned, every navigation
will have major problems.
Also, the navigation to certain public pages needs to
be more transparent:
- personal pages "published" within the inTRAnet,
- public personal pages reachable for the unauthenticated,
- group pages for the inTRAnet,
- group pages for the inTERnet.
What makes navigation also very difficult, is the concept
of subgroups. As long as this does not allow for proper
hierarchy where the link "up to (parent group)" is
similar on all levels, subgroups is, IMO, more confusing
than helpful and should be able to be switched off at
system setup time. A proper hierarchy, however, is
important, see also bugs like
https://openacs.org/bugtracker/openacs/bug?bug%5fnumber=1755
