[Owncloud] ownCloud 1.0 RC1 issues

[Frank Karlitschek]

On 01.06.2010, at 14:01, Robin wrote:

> On Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:46:54 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> thanks a lot for the great work of all of you in the last few weeks.
>> Especially because I hadn´t much time lately. :-) I think we achieved a
>> lot and we are on the right track to produce a fantastic piece of
>> software.
>> 
>> 
>> I tried to package and release ownCloud 1.0 RC1 during this weekend like I
>> announced last week. The plan is to release 1.0 during Linuxtag next week
>> and do a 1.0.1 shortly after this with bugfixes.
>> 
>> But I noticed a few major problems.
>> 
>> 
>> 1. I got 2 scrollbars on the right hand side of the browser at the first
>> run wizard. This looks strange.
> What browser are you using?

I see this with Firefox


> Does the second scrollbar actually hides something, I could force the browser 
> not to show it but that only is an option if the scrollbar only scrolls a few 
> pixels or something

I noticed that this happens when your browser window is smaller than the dialog.



>> 
>> 
>> 2. Initial database setup
>> I think the current configuration form is O.K. for now. But in the future
>> we should streamline it more. All the database password and logins are
>> confusing for normal users. I think we should default to SQLite where it
>> automatically detects is a database exists and if not just creates it. No
>> need to ask the users questions here. There could be an option to switch
>> to mysql of course where all the advanced options for database
>> authentication are shown.
> At least the database name for sqlite databases can be removed as config option 
> since it's stored in the owncloud directory anyway, so the user doesn't see it 
> or a

yes.


> nything
>> I also don´t get SQLite as an option here. It seams that a driver is mission 
> on this system here. But we should tell the
>> users what is missing.
> Good point, will fix it


great

>> 
>> Remember that the vision is that the user just has to unpack owncloud in a
>> random directory on a webserver and it works without further system
>> administration configuration work.
>> 
>> 
>> 3. usermanagement / groups.
>> I don´t think the existing multiuser features are ready for release at this
>> moment. So I think this should be deativated. And I´m also not sure If the
>> direction is the right one. I have some concrete plans and code for the
>> sharing features already. This feature needs more discussion. It would be
>> nice if somebody could deativate this features again for 1.0 Thanks.
> Would just removing the "Create new user" dialog be enough for now?


Yes. I think so. I suggest to remove new user and new group for now :-)


>> 
>> 4. Settings / Admin Panel.
>> I don´t get why we have 2 different places for configuration here.
>> Could we please discuss this further?
> This was done to separate the user related configurations from the ownCloud 
> administration, the Admin Panel only shows for users in the admin group.
> As long as the multi user is disabled it might be best to put them together 
> again

O.K. I understand.



>> 
>> 
>> By the way. We should use this mailinglist to discuss major architectural
>> changes and big commit. It is important that we are on the same page here
>> and work in the same direction. :-)
>> 
>> We should use this mailinglist as "official" platform to decide about the
>> direction of ownCloud. IRC is not the right medium because people who are
>> not online at this moment can´t tell their opinion.
> Sounds good
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Frank

Thanks for your help. :-)


Cheers
Frank



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Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek at kde.org