[Owncloud] App settings

[Jan-Christoph Borchardt]

For apps which don’t display an actual app (which are basically
extensions) the settings should still be in Personal – as I replied to
Michal for the Mozilla sync integration.
As soon as the settings of apps are moved out there it will be a lot
less clutter – if there’s any more, we can deal with that then. Step
by step.


For apps which don’t have any settings, there will just be no settings
icon in the app (also, you’re awesome!).


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Gapczynski <mtgap at owncloud.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is the best solution, because not all apps display
> something. I think the app settings should still appear in personal, but
> organized so the app specific settings aren't always visible. There's some
> clutter right now with the personal page.
>
> Or expose the apps settings page to all users and put the settings into that
> large white space there :)
>
>
> Michael
>
> On Monday, July 23, 2012 10:09:20 AM Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote:
>> 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/settin
>> gs.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
>>
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