Darkh has been working on some changes to ownCloud sharing that I'd like to share with everyone else for some feedback. Darkh has implemented user folders inside of the 'Shared' directory for the files that are shared with you. This would be a clear identification of who the owner of the files is. Eventually I'm planning on the drop down also sharing this information with you and showing the original owner in the case of multiple reshares. <div>
<br></div><div>Darkh has also started fixing sharing with groups, which I guess broke sometime ago. I haven't been monitoring group sharing, because I personally feel that groups shouldn't be included in ownCloud. A regular user has no need for this and a folder shared with multiple people can be used to replace this. I know that this doesn't work in all cases and that many believe that businesses would want groups. I don't know of any businesses using ownCloud and I don't think it is our intention to target them nor should we. If this was something a business wanted and they felt strongly enough about using ownCloud they would implement it on their own. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The other thing is sharing with the public. I have two separate definitions and cases for public sharing. The first is sharing with all users in the same ownCloud instance, public to ownCloud users. The second is sharing with anyone with a link to the file (token will be depreciated soon for a human readable link), public to the world. In both cases I believe files should only be readable. I'm not sure how to separate them from a user's perspective or implement in the UI. Maybe the drop down should have an option to share with all and a folder 'Public' for sharing files with the world. The token links weren't great for sharing, but had a small layer of security with them. I think we still need to consider a way for a person to securely share a file with a specific person not on ownCloud. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any feedback or even code contributions would be greatly appreciated :)</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div>
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