Files-Folders-owncloud-PA5

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Wednesday 30 October 2013 21:30:24 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 20:29:48 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 2013-10-29, 23:47:43, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > That struck me as well. I've tried to fix it some time ago, but it
> > > really
> > > is not that easy technically. The synching library and owncloud itself
> > > is
> > > folder- based, changing that would need very intrusive changes to the
> > > system. I'm not in a position to do that.
> > 
> > Couldn't it work with something like:
> > - creating a temp dir
> > - symlinking or hardlinking the respective files into it
> > - sync
> > - delete links
> > - copy remaining files (new in sync)
> > - remove empty temp dir
> 
> Possibly, but would I feel really dirty about doing it? Certainly yes.
> 
> The nice thing about the sync process is that it's event-driven, you add a
> file in one of the synched locations, sync starts shortly after that. No
> polling for the local filesystem.
> 
> Also, the other way round isn't addressed by it.
> 
> If you (or anyone else) want to give it a try, be my guest... :)

As mentioned in my reply to Aaron in the "Categories" thread: We need to find 
a solution to make the folder and tag worlds compatible anyway, in order to be 
ready for the future when users seamlessly switch between the different Plasma 
shells.
This won't be easy, but we need something, because people won't give up folder 
hierarchies in the Desktop world anyway.