[Owncloud] sync client - In your face vs silent start

[Klaas Freitag]

On 25.04.2012 09:36, Stefan Göckeritz wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I have to agree fully with what Pascal promotes. I'd also like to have a
> balloon, telling me that a file was synced, or even more, that there are
> new files and the syncing is starting, but no actual program interface
> that I have to click away to use the computer.
It goes away after 5 seconds.

> Basically I always thought of the dropbox application, havin exactly
> this behaviour. I really like that... not too immersive, but informative.
Sure. Please do a bug-report or feature request on http://bugs.owncloud.org

Thanks,

Klaas


>
> Could this be a way to pave for the future of this very nice and useful
> sync client?
>
> Thanks to all folks dealing with the inner bones of that thing :-)
> Keep it up!
>
> Cheers
> Stefan
>
> Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2012 09:30:07 schrieb Pascal d'Hermilly:
>> Each time I start my computer I get a big Owncloud splash screen and a
>> message that now we are syncing. Thats quite invasive and annoying -
>> my mind should not always be on owncloud even though it might be running.
>> The most elegant services are the ones you don't notice unless you
>> need them.
>>
>> My suggestions:
>>
>> * Remove the splash - The program starts quickly enough and might
>> not even be started by intent since it's supposed to work like a
>> daemon.
>> * Tell us if a new file was synced into the folder, but not that
>> syncing started.
>>
>> Pascal
>>
>>
>>
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