On Tuesday 21 February 2012 10:04:49 Klaas Freitag wrote: > On 20.02.2012 23:21, Tom Needham wrote: > >> On 20.02.2012, at 22:11, Michael Gapczynski<[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> However, I can also > >> invision having the files from Dropbox and Google Docs showing up in the > >> root of the filesystem with an indicator of their respective external > >> locations. During the upload or file creation process the user would be > >> presented with a choice of where to store the file. This feels more > >> natural to me than a directory system and could prevent problems with > >> locating files. > > > > I think that mounting all of the storage backends into the root folder > > might even be easier for the end user, if we can make the ui work well. > > If everything was mounted in folders /dropbox /google /ftp I think end > > users would get confused where their files were actually being stored and > > could loose track of things. > Thats right, unexperienced users which we also like to see in ownCloud > often do not understand the directory concept, especially not if they > did not create the directory nor understand their name: One will > understand a "Letters to Tina" folder way better than a suddenly > appearing "FTP" directory.
Agree > > Most users today have search centric behaviour, driven by google. Google > does not have directories, you just searhch and find. Even if we store > data in dirs and mount into directories (which we need for tech reasons > I think) maybe we should think more in the direction of creating various > views on the files structure. For example, an alternative to the current > file-page of ownCloud could be a page with just a search field. If one > enters "Tina" all files from the "Letters to Tina" dir are presented. I like this idea. In the end, wouldn't we follow the ideas of Nepomuk in a certain way? > > > Perhaps we could also enhance the idea of 'labelling' (or maybe better > > 'tagging') of files to make it easier to search for files (much like > > bookmarks). This would make it easy for example to show everything stored > > on dropbox, or everything that you are sharing... > Yes, tags are one of the search criteria often used. > > > It's certainly an interesting topic :) > > Yes, and one which is technically hard to tackle but one that really can > make ownCloud even more exciting. > > Klaas > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
