[Owncloud] Mounting External Storage

[Arthur Schiwon]

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<mtgap at owncloud.com>  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
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