[Owncloud] Future changes to sharing

Michael Gapczynski mtgap at owncloud.com
Thu Mar 29 01:25:22 UTC 2012


On Thursday, March 29, 2012 01:47:00 AM Artikel 140 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Owncloud service running. I must say I was thinking this week
> about this problem. a lot of my users do not know each other and to
> respect their privacy I would like to  this see this  feature. Since
> there is a possibility to use groups, I would like to see that people
> inside a group can see each other, but outside the group not.

This was actually requested recently and I've just implemented it in master. 
I'm not sure if I should create a default group that users can later be 
removed from. It may cause confusion if you can't share with anyone because 
you don't use groups on your instance.

> 
> I hope the dev. see this as positive feedback ;-)
> 
> Grtz,
> Maikel
> 
> ps. Keep up the good work, I like this service a lot!
> 
> On 03/28/2012 09:48 PM, Michael Gapczynski wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >  My question is: can I disable the user list? It's not practical, because
> >  I
> > 
> > want to provide storage space for my clients, and they don't know each
> > other, and I don't want them to know each other's user name. I'd like to
> > use the web sharing feature only.
> > 
> >  Is it possible?
> >  
> >  Thank you!
> >  
> >  Adaz
> > 
> > This is possible, but I don't like adding settings. I'll have to think
> > about this.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:29:46 AM Jarry R wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 2012/3/28 Dirk Kastens <dirk.kastens at uni-osnabrueck.de>
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Great! Isn't it possible to start autocomplete after entering the 3rd
> > letter? This would reduce the amount of matching users a lot.
> > 
> > Dirk
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > one solution that i have implemented for a user list is to get a subset of
> > the users and put at the bottom of the autocomplete list a message saying
> > "there are <x> more users, please refine your search"
> > its an idea.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'll be looking into different ideas for increasing performance. I'll need
> > some people with large user bases to test it out for me.
> > 
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
> > 
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