On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Klaas Freitag <frei...@owncloud.com> wrote:
> On 26.05.2012 13:09, Deepak Mittal wrote: > >> On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Frank Karlitschek<fr...@owncloud.org** >> >wrote: >> > Hi, > > > >> You can check out my GSoC proposal at >> http://www.google-melange.com/**gsoc/proposal/review/google/** >> gsoc2012/dpacmittal/18002<http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/dpacmittal/18002> >> . >> This is basically how I'm implementing it although few things might change >> during actual implementation. >> > > Great proposal from a users perspective. Here are some random thoughts: > > - The request_file and request_file_index request: These functions provide > a very similar functionality than the WebDAV module which is already there: > With WebDAV you can obviously download files and get directory listings, > however for the sharing a filter on the file listing would be needed (ie. > which files are to share). Maybe we can combine that and not duplicate? > Yep, Robin told me I could use WebDAV interface for this functionality. > > - it might be cool to enhance the idea of what a user is in ownCloud in > general. Currently a user is just "frank", maybe we should enhance that to > "frank@domain". That would make a lot more possible. > Yes, that's the idea. It was in my mockups album. https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/vuvy62LL6e2zLvueGiDkT9MTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink > > - A very special usecase of sharing is the "sharing with myself". Given > that I can proof that frank@domainA and frank@domainB are both under my > control the complete data can be shared between the ownClouds which in turn > makes moving quite easy. > > - I think the request_user_index is not a good idea. Systems like ownCloud > should not distribute their user lists, and (already hearing Jan objecting > ;-) obviously not by default. I think you should know the user you want to > share with. > User-index is only required for a drop-down list in which user can search/select user to share files with. I will put an option to disable sharing of user-index, after which user has to manually type the name is sharing box. > > The API can be very useful for the client as well which we also were > already talking about. > Sorry, I'm confused. Do I go ahead with my original proposal, or do I start again with a REST API? Can someone guide me on what to do? It'd be awesome if we could talk this over IRC or have an IRC meeting about this. > > Thanks, > > Klaas > > ______________________________**_________________ > Owncloud mailing list > Owncloud@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/**listinfo/owncloud<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud> > -- Regards, Deepak Mittal, Twitter - @dpacmittal
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