Re: [Usability] [Owncloud] FLOSS alternative to Dropbox – GNOME + KDE collaboration?

[Patrick Carlson <firefly2442 gmail com>]

This may be slightly off topic but would it be possible to design the
server in such a way that not only system administrators could setup
and manage but also the advanced home user?  From a usability standpoint it would be nice to have the application be broad enough so many people could use it easily.  I think it would be very
handy to have the ability to setup multiple machines for storage and then have the clients be able to save files to a pool of storage made up of these machines.  Perhaps even roll the server and client into one application so that each machine can perform both functions in a distributed or P2P kind of fashion.

Anyway, just some thoughts.  I look forward to hearing more about progress on this project.

-Patrick

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy gnome org> wrote:

On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 13:41 -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> Hmm, okay, sorry I was confused.  I guess it seems to me the server is a
> moot point for the GNOME Usability list :)

It's not a moot point; we're talking about tools for usability
practitioners to use as discussed at the UX hackfest. If we want to
enable more designers to be involved in GNOME, the service involved
needs to be accessible to designers across distros / even non-*nix
platforms as well.

Either case thanks for pointing out the U1 client, it is a real shame
the server is not something we can use.

~m


_______________________________________________
Usability mailing list
Usability gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability