option to force end users to actively select a suitable local directory #7497
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Signed-off-by: Rainer Walke <[email protected]>
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Thanks for trying to implement your feature request! ❤️
I am not sure if I follow your proposal.
I am not sure this is a good idea unless the user knows what they are doing. |
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| <source>Easy-to-use web mail, calendaring & contacts</source> | |||
| <translation>Courrier électronique, calendrier et contacts en ligne faciles à utiliser</translation> | |||
| <translation>E-mail, agenda et contacts en ligne faciles à utiliser</translation> | |||
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The translation files should not be changed, we pull them from Transifex: https://app.transifex.com/nextcloud/nextcloud/client/
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I plan to add a few more lines of code so that the general user gets the default folder as usual. Only in special cases do I want to force the user to manually select a folder without a default (or an institution-specific default).
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| localFolder = QDir::homePath() + QLatin1Char('/') + localFolder; | |||
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As you can see in line 119, localFolder is meant to be a path to a local folder.
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I plan to add a few more lines of code so that the general user gets the default folder as usual. Only in special cases do I want to force the user to manually select a folder without a default (or an institution-specific default).
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I plan to add a few more lines of code so that the general user gets the default folder as usual. Only in special cases do I want to force the user to manually select a folder without a default (or an institution-specific default).
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In both cases Qt uses default system paths, each platform has one.
In our institution, we don't agree with the Qt default system paths (Windows OS). Of course, we try to teach our users to carefully select the local folder. But it would be helpful to have an option to turn off the defaults or change them to something else via an option.
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Feature description (see #7454)
When a user installs Nextcloud, the wizard uses a default directory that works.
Often, administrators do not recommend this folder as a local directory, e.g. in the Windows OS user's roaming profile.
The user should be required to actively select a local directory.
If the automatic software distribution could distribute an option like
proposeLocalDir=FALSE
to the nextcloud.cfg file,
the Nextcloud wizard would wait until the users themselves selected a suitable directory.
This would help administrators in organizations to promote a certain style of Nextcloud usage.
Nothing would change for individual Nextcloud users.
This is a first step to illustrate the idea.
The next step would be to read the nextcloud.cfg file and evaluate an additional option.