[Enhancement]: User menu including switching

[k3davis]

Type of Enhancement

Web Interface/Frontend

Describe the Feature/Enhancement

I have a few family users that frequently switch "profiles" when using this app. I'd find it really useful if there were a quicker way to do this. My suggestion (fwiw) is to change the user link (that looks like it should open a menu to me anyway, but is just a link):

to more of an actual menu, that could include Profile (or Change Password) to link to the current page, Switch User, and Logout, for example.

"Switch user" would ideally have some kind of user select modal, or the signed in users to just switch to right on the menu itself. If the user signs out, they would be removed from this list, or would be prompted for just a password again, or something like that.

If this isn't widely useful, it may be a candidate for the proposed plugin design.

Why would this be helpful?

Fewer clicks to either log out or switch user, and (imho) a more intuitive use of the user link.

Future Implementation (Screenshot)

(mockup to explain the notion only, not a proposed final solution)

Audiobookshelf Server Version

2.17.7

Current Implementation (Screenshot)

(see above)

[nichwall]

Could this be achieved by having different browser profiles? Like do your users individually have multiple accounts or just share a computer/browser?

[k3davis]

@nichwall fair question; in our case (young family) there's a central shared computer logged in as one user and ABS is installed as an "app" so the browser isn't exposed, per se. But perhaps there are ways I could leverage browser profiles to accomplish this.

I'd personally be interested in contributing a plugin that adds this option to the menu (if it were a menu in the first place, and if plugins were a thing), but it does seem like this is probably a niche use case for us.