[Owncloud] App settings

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

Yeah, I wanted to do that for quite a while but haven’t found time to do that.

To not have me as organization bottleneck in this, it should just be
done by each app developer individually, like this:


All app settings (which are now in the Personal category) should be in
a popover inside the app itself.
The trigger for that popover should be where your apps menubar is –
for Files, Calendar and Music in the top right, for Contacts it’s cool
as it is now.
The trigger icon should be the settings cog
(http://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud/blobs/master/core/img/actions/settings.png
– you might say this clashes with the global settings icon, but it
will not anymore when the settings are moved to the top right, unified
with user info and log out).
For the popover, the first developer to do it should define a global
style class .popup in core.css – just use the CSS from the About &
Settings popovers from http://youtify.com for that.

That’s it. Let me know if you have any questions, and sorry I can’t help more.



(By the way, regarding address book configuration – since you mention
»maybe even get rid of it« – just do that. If people want to configure
address books, they can do it in their desktop client. We should not
load up the web app with functionality like that, where groups make
much more sense. Doesn’t matter what’s in the standard, neither
Google, Android, iOS or any other modern apps use the notion of
address books – because it’s confusing to people.)



On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> For quite some time there has been talk about moving personal settings away
> from settings/personal.php and have them at app level instead.
>
> Have there been more talks, mockups or anything?
>
> For the contacts app I will have to rewrite the configuration for the address
> books anyway - or maybe even get rid of it, but I might as well do it The
> Right Way. And I would really like to do it before OC 5.
>
> --
> Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards
>
> Thomas Tanghus