On 03.11.2010, at 10:50, François K. wrote: > Dear ownCloud team, > > Please let me introduce myself. My name is François, I'm a nearly-27 years > old guy living in Strasbourg, France. I'm a Linux user since a couple of > years and I work as a sysadmin. > Well, I have to say that I'm very excited about ownCloud. I was looking for > such a thing for a long time, and I even thought about developping a similar > piece of software by myself. > So, as I'm really interested in this project, and as I have a little spare > time (I guess), I'd like to contribute. I studied developpement, and more > specifically web-oriented languages such as HTML, CSS, PHP and Javascript. > I've some experience in web applications development so... I'm might help a > bit :)
Great! :-) > For now, let me start with some ideas. I've installed and started to test > ownCloud yesterday. I've also read the wiki pages. I might have missed some > pages, so please excuse me if I point things that are already planned. Please > also note that I haven't studied ownCloud source code for now. Finally, my > goal with this email isn't to criticize but rather to be positive. So please > don't misunderstand what I'm saying, I don't mean to be rude, it's just my > bad english :) > > > Well, first point that surprised me after installation is that you get an > empty "files" space. I thought ownCloud would provide some folders, just like > the one you have when you create a new user account on a Linux system (think > about /etc/skel). I expected to have a "Documents" folder, a "Music" folder, > an "Images" folder, etc. I think that it could also ease the development of > plugins (the "Music" plugin knows where to find the music files). Is this > something planned/studied ? Good idea. We should have nice default folders. > A nice feature in Mac OS X (I'm managing Mac OS X computers at work) is that > every user has a "Public" folder in its home. This is a special folder : > everything stored in it is public. So this is where you put things to make > them available for anyone. Also, the "Public" folder contains a "Dropbox" > folder where anyone has a write-only access. This is very useful when you > need to share a file with only one person. You just have to drop the file in > his "Dropbox" folder. Of course, the owner of the Dropbox folder has read and > write access. I don't know how sharing files is planned, but I think this > kind of mechanism is very interesting. If I want to share a file with > everyone, I put it in my "Public" folder. If I want to share a file with > John, I drop it in John's "Public > Dropbox" folder. To my opinion, it's much > more simple than setting permissions on each file. Something like this is planed. I´m working on this. > Allright, regarding users management, I think it would be a good idea to have > an "email" field for each user. This could be useful when the admin needs to > contact his users. Or plugins might need it too (cron jobs or whatever). > Also, (but I believe that it's planned), ownCloud should give the hability to > set a quota for each user (and check the quota whenever it's necessary). Good idea. > I'll finish with this third idea (I have tons). I think ownCloud needs some > polishing. I've always been very interested in ergonomics, GUI, and users > experience. And I believe that some things can be done to improve ownCloud > usability. I'll try to make some mockups in the next few days if it's ok for > you. Just let me know. Oh, regarding this, is there some policy regarding dev > technologies ? I mean, for example, HTML5 provides a nice new way to handle > uploads. Are you already supporting these or do you wait until it's fully > supported by all web browsers ? It would be great if you could do some mockups. I suggest to discuss them on this list afterwards. I think we can use the latest HTML5 stuff as long as it works with the latest Firefox, Chrome, rekonq, Opera, .. > Oh, also, I started to make a simple pictures gallery PHP script a few days > ago. If you think it can be useful, I'll gladly share it. A bit of work would > obviously be needed to adapt it to ownCloud. Very nice :-) Cheers Frank -- Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
