@jan I’m not sure what a design pull request is, so do feel free to point me to the right resources (if it differs from a normal PR)
I’d like to imagine something like this:
Sharing the link doesn’t change, that has to be done regardless of the type of share you’re creating.
However instead of obscuring that pretty awesome filedrop feature behind “allow edit”, bring it up front and centre.
In the screenshot above I’ve added some clarity. The wording may not be perfect but that’s not super important currently. When sharing has been ticked, the user is given the options to:
a. Allow remote users to view and edit directory contents
or
b. Create a File Drop folder (a small tooltip wouldn’t go amiss here, just to make sure users understand)
Whichever one is selected greys the other out, for obvious reasons. Edit folder contents could be transparently enabled when selecting File Drop which I guess would allow some of the logic already in place on that checkbox area to remain.
That would make it clearer I think.
I’m also a bit biased towards this type of feature (I use File Request so much in dropbox) and I’d like to see it more prominently offered…
But that’s more wishful thinking than anything else
Just to add a little, I would really like to use a folder as a file drop even when I’m the owner of the folder.
Often times I’ll have files that I don’t want to store on my local machine, so I’d like to just drop them into NC, have them upload, and then disappear locally. The same concept as just moving a file to an external drive.
It could just be an option in the desktop client. Something vaguely like this:
The only way I’ve found to do this is to create a folder that isn’t synced with the desktop client, upload things through the web client, and then delete them locally. This is pretty cumbersome though and I can’t upload things larger than 2GB, which, ironically, is almost always the kind of file I’d like to shove into NC and remove from my machine.
I’d like to resurface this, as nothing has been changed since the topic started as far as I can tell. Mostly because I guess I still don’t understand what a design PR is, but also because I don’t have the knowledge to implement this via code myself … but maybe someone else does
Anyway, it would be better to have such an issue on github, then it is better to keep track of such things. In the forum, they tend to get lost after some time if no one remembers.
tooltip wouldn’t go amiss here, just to make sure users understand)
