Differences between list and gallery views for link-shared folders

[nclm]

When sharing a folder from a link, the web view has two display modes: list and gallery (I believe there’s no tip about their actual names). Here’s how the pages top looks like in each option:

List view

Gallery view

It’s not really consistent.

The list has this that the gallery doesn’t have:

• Add button
• Download button
• Upload button (optional)

The gallery has this that the list doesn’t have:

• Name of the shared folder
• Name of the sharing person

I think it’s quite confusing, and having the same header for both would be better.

Here’s a very crude mock-up:

Mock-up

It has everything from both, plus:

• Upload and Download buttons close to each other. It would also allow the Upload button to get a label when the screen is large enough, as the Download button currently does.
• A switch UI element instead of an action button, so the user gets more easily that they can switch between two display modes.

[oparoz]

The next Gallery already has the download and home button (demo), but I agree that some uniformity would be welcome.
Having the view switcher could be interesting if we add more views, like the document view for the current folder, but I don't think the documents app supports that.

@jancborchardt and his team would need to come up with a design to apply to all apps.

[jancborchardt]

The design to be applied should be the one used in the Files app. That is:

• header with buttons for »Add to your ownCloud« and »Download«
• »Upload« button as last item in breadcrumbs

Can you apply that for the Gallery+ app @oparoz?

I do like the view switcher which shows both views and makes clear which is the currently selected state. Otherwise it might not be clear what it is.

[jancborchardt]

cc @owncloud/designers as well

[oparoz]

@jancborchardt - I think the "shared by X" is missing from the Files app. It's very useful to get a reminder of who's sent you the files.

[jancborchardt]

@oparoz we deliberately cut this because it leaks the user name which is done nowhere else. We wanted to remove it in the Gallery app a long time ago also but the pull request never got through …

[oparoz]

OK

[jancborchardt]

Referencing the pull requests where we worked on this: owncloud/gallery#33 and owncloud/gallery#121

They are obsolete because basically it is fixed in Gallery+. @oparoz if the header in Gallery+ looks different from what I described above it would be cool to change it accordingly. :)

[oparoz]

@jancborchardt - I've created the missing tickets in the tracker and that will be taken care of eventually, but in any case, before it becomes the official app.

[nclm]

Thanks for the answers!

Additionally, I think the name of the shared folder is really quite useful, and is more relevant than a home icon; it does not appear in the current list view, nor in the next gallery view. It’s a sort of page title, to know what is this folder being shared.

[jancborchardt]

@oparoz great! Can you link them here so we can close this?

@nclm good point actually. Can you open this as a new separate issue? You are very welcome in our IRC channel #owncloud-design as well :)

[oparoz]

• Turn the Gallery button into a switch Turn the Gallery button into a switch gallery#145
• Add "Add to owncloud" button Add "Add to owncloud" button gallery#144
• Upload straight from the app Upload straight from the app [$250] gallery#25

[jancborchardt]

Closing this in favor of these linked issues then. Thank you for the suggestions @nclm – please give your input in these individual issues then. :)