Hello Jakub, thanks for your input!
On 05/05/14 16:43, Jakub Moscicki wrote: > I have several questions: > > - I think that many users actually appreciate to have a clean > separation of shared and "normal" files provided by /Shared folder > (and being able to find all Shared things in one place) I can see you point. Actually we got a lot of feedback regarding the /Shared folder and also the developers discussed it for quite some time. Many people like the /Shared folder but at the same time we had the impression that more people would prefer to have more flexibility to organize the files in their ownCloud. So finally we decided to go this way. Actually dropbox and others do it the same way. Not that we have to copy everything from our competitors. But sometimes it can give you a good sense about what people like and what people might expect. > - what would be the impact on the efficiency of top-level PROPFIND > with Depth=1 (especially on the database) if shared items are placed > on the top-level? There shouldn't be much difference. Although this is a good question and I will look into it, maybe there is something we can improve. Generally I don't expect that the users have all their shared files in the root but that they organize them in sub-folders. So at least if a shared file changes this would improve the propfind. Because in case of the Shared folder you would always need to check all shared files/folder to find the one who changed while when they are distributed on your filesystem you don't have to check them all. > - what would you do if a file/directory /X existed already and a > file/directory with the same basename X was shared by a another user > later? Than the shared file will be named "X (1)", "X (2)",... the same way we handle name conflicts in the Shared folder. > What about having a separate folder pair on the client that would > sync only the Shared items? For example, ~/ownCloud.Shared or alike. > And a separate button (in the app tab?) to access shared items. With ownCloud7 we will also have a overview page for shared files which I think is more or less what you suggest here. This overview page will show you all files you shared and all files shared to you so that you can easily access them even if they are distributed across various folders. cheers, Björn -- Björn Schießle <[email protected]> Software Engineer ownCloud Inc. Your Data, Your Cloud, Your Way! ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
