[Owncloud] Future changes to sharing

[Michael Gapczynski]

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 09:06:55 AM Dirk Kastens wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> > I'm looking forward to any feedback.
> 
> The main problem for me is the user interface for sharing files. You are
> using the OC getUsers method to list all users if you click on the share
> icon. And then you use autocomplete after typing the first letter to
> display the matching usernames. We have 50.000 users in our ldap
> database and this method of entering the usernames doesn't work at all.
> Wouldn't it be possible to let the user enter an arbitrary name into a
> text field, and when he presses "enter", the user ist searched in the
> user database?
> 
> And yes, sharing files with external users via email address would be a
> great feature.
> 
> Regards,
> Dirk

I would like to get rid of the list of users before the next release; I'm 
aware this makes sharing impractical for large number of available users. 
Autocomplete is the best solution for finding a certain user, but I'm not sure 
if I have the skills to optimize it for large lists of users. I'm going to try 
my best.


Michael