Re: [orca-list] google drive, was a semi OT conversation abpout Support autoinstall of talking arch, (that was fwd'ed from somewhere...)

[Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com>]

Oh, man! You have absolutely got to try the webdav interface! It lets you use Nautilus or whatever your file 
manager is.a11y is not an issue.  

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:39 PM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
>
> I am not using the webdav interface, just the regular html interface on
> the server itself and accessibility has been a mess, its still a bit
> quirky, but it seems better with the new release.
>
> Alex Midence <alex midence gmail com> wrote:
>
> > I had everyone in the family with an account on it and we all used our mobile devices with it.  IN our 
> > case, it's iPhones and iPads.  The owncloud installation was treated as a strict server so, we never added 
> > files through the command line of the very machine they  were stored on.  I started to use the webdav 
> > interface which looks pretty promising and, at least, doesn'thang the  whole installation whenever you 
> > have two or three thousand photos and videos to peruse.  
> >
> > Alex M
> > Oh, and incidentally, I think their enterprise paid version of OwnCloud may have a few proprietary 
> > components.  They probably do that thing where they release the source two or three versions later into 
> > the community version as they keep improving their paid product.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: orca-list [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of covici ccs covici com
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:12 PM
> > To: Kyle
> > Cc: orca-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] google drive, was a semi OT conversation abpout Support autoinstall of talking 
> > arch, (that was fwd'ed from somewhere...)
> >
> > Well, I did the upgrade and they did make some improvements in the accessibility of their web interface, 
> > at any rate.  I have not tested uploading files, as I usually just add them from the command line.
> >
> > Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > The OwnCloud server is currently at version 8.0. The client is at 
> > > version 1.7. I need to update my server, as I believe I'm still 
> > > running
> > > 7.0 there, but I have no trouble at all uploading files, even in my 
> > > current version.
> > >
> > > Regarding the license of OwnCloud, it is indeed open source, and there 
> > > are no proprietary bits that I have installed, as if they do exist, 
> > > they certainly wouldn't improve its functionality; they would only 
> > > remove my freedoms, which I hold at a fairly high value. I'm happiest 
> > > when the code is in the public domain, and any time I write anything 
> > > at all, I use either the Unlicense[1] or the Creative Commons CC0 
> > > waiver[2]. That said, I will happily use any software as long as it 
> > > has a free/open source license that at least makes the attempt to 
> > > respect my freedom to use, modify and distribute modified or 
> > > unmodified copies of it, and gives me access to the source code if I want it.
> > >
> > > [1]: http://unlicense.org/
> > > [2]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
> > > Sent from my coffee maker
> > > --
> > > "Don't judge my disability until you are able to see my ability."
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>
>         John Covici
>         covici ccs covici com