Nextcloud AMA!!
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@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Normal users can't be asked to type something in. Heck it's hard enough sometimes getting them to browse through and find the s: drive.
To make this really user-centric, it needs to have a button inside the save dialog that allows them to browse to where they want to open/save a file, like JB's example.
My whole thinking is a way to move from the current workflows of today and network shares to a future workflow of accessing things directly through the apps.
This is how most mobile apps work.
I'm not a Windows expert. But isn't there a way to create a network share entry in the save dialog for all users. A WebDAV entry is similar to a normal network share entry.
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@jt1001001 said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Any plans for more of a Nexcloud "appliance" , say a NAS with Nexcloud integrated. Love the Raspberry Pi WD project but one still has to provide the Pi
Yes. We hope that more and more hardware manufacturers ship boxes with Nextcloud installed. We ourselves are not in the hardware business. But if someone knows someone who could/should ship Nextcloud preinstalled then we should talk and recommend this.
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@JaredBusch said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
If WebDAV works, just in theory, what would be nice is an integration so that we can push it out to MS Office somehow.
Or likewise, to LibreOffice
I was assuming anything would be easy with LibreOffice.
Probably
I know that it has WebDAV in a dropdown. I bet there is a text file that holds those details or something. -
@jt1001001 said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Any plans for more of a Nexcloud "appliance" , say a NAS with Nexcloud integrated. Love the Raspberry Pi WD project but one still has to provide the Pi
Synology, ReadyNAS... those would be great to see.
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@jt1001001 said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Any plans for more of a Nexcloud "appliance" , say a NAS with Nexcloud integrated. Love the Raspberry Pi WD project but one still has to provide the Pi
@NetServer has it built in now with the 7.3 release.
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@jt1001001 said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Any plans for more of a Nexcloud "appliance" , say a NAS with Nexcloud integrated. Love the Raspberry Pi WD project but one still has to provide the Pi
On the software side, a couple of projects offer something like that. @alefattorini talked about one - Nethserver. And there is Univention's UCS which is a bit like that for SMB. And the Snaps from the Nextcloud Box can be put on any device/os that supports it (most linux'es).
With hardware - yeah, it would be nice to have a NAS with Nextcloud sold out of the box... We are talking to the guys doing the Omnia router, perhaps that'll come with Nextcloud some day
And maybe somebody wants to start a business? We would be happy to help and if you need hard drives, let me know, I know some ppl at a big storage vendor
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@jospoortvliet said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
And maybe somebody wants to start a business? We would be happy to help and if you need hard drives, let me know, I know some ppl at a big storage vendor
There should be a SAM-SD with NextCloud integrated out of the box. I wonder who we'd talk to about that.
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What are the biggest hurdles you guys are hitting now?
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@scottalanmiller I'm droooling over that!!
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@Frank-Karlitschek said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Normal users can't be asked to type something in. Heck it's hard enough sometimes getting them to browse through and find the s: drive.
To make this really user-centric, it needs to have a button inside the save dialog that allows them to browse to where they want to open/save a file, like JB's example.
My whole thinking is a way to move from the current workflows of today and network shares to a future workflow of accessing things directly through the apps.
This is how most mobile apps work.
I'm not a Windows expert. But isn't there a way to create a network share entry in the save dialog for all users. A WebDAV entry is similar to a normal network share entry.
Quick Google search turned up these two links
https://www.webdavsystem.com/server/documentation/ms_office_read_only/
https://codebeamer.com/cb/wiki/11103I haven't read them fully yet
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@dafyre said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
What are the biggest hurdles you guys are hitting now?
Honestly my biggest hurdle at the moment is to keep up with all the requests and feedback. A lot of people are interested in Nextcloud. #IOT
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@Frank-Karlitschek said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
@dafyre said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
What are the biggest hurdles you guys are hitting now?
Honestly my biggest hurdle at the moment is to keep up with all the requests and feedback. A lot of people are interested in Nextcloud. #IOT
Guess that's a good problem to have!
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hashtag IOT?
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I am not actually using NextCloud anywhere yet because of existing ownCloud installations that have yet to be migrated.
I noticed that with version 11 there are some issues with compatibility in the Android app and that it is now required to migrate to the NextCloud app.
Are there any compatibility issues yet with the desktop sync clients? Changing all users once I migrate the server is a non-trivial task.
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Are there any plans to actually integrate an email server or just to remain as a client? Not saying that that is my vote either way, just interested in the email roadmap.
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@JaredBusch said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
I noticed that with version 11 there are some issues with compatibility in the Android app and that it is now required to migrate to the NextCloud app.
Are there any compatibility issues yet with the desktop sync clients? Changing all users once I migrate the server is a non-trivial task.The ownCloud 2.2 and 2.3 desktop client should be completely compatible with Nextcloud. So you can easily migrate this over time.
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@Dashrender said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
hashtag IOT?
Ach, it isn't a hurdle but there's a lot of interesting stuff in that area which provides similar challenges as the ones we try to solve (who is in control etcetera). The Nextcloud Box is positioned, especially by Canonical, to address some of that see https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/02/22/an-ubuntu-snap-based-solution-for-enterprises-to-control-their-data/
I'm sure Frank is itching to move from this boring old cloud stuff and create a new project to tackle an entirely new space and challenge 8-)
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@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud AMA!!:
Are there any plans to actually integrate an email server or just to remain as a client? Not saying that that is my vote either way, just interested in the email roadmap.
So one of the goals of Nextcloud is to be super easy to install. Because of that it is a pure PHP application that is super easy to install. So we can't include a full IMAP/SMTP server. And to be honest there is also no point in reinventing the wheel. A lot of great open source mailservers exists. Just install one of them and Nextcloud can use it.
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I deploy software on windows via chocolatey.org whenever possible.
The NextCloud client is listed there, but I see no official NextCloud names in the details.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/nextcloud-clientHas anyone from there reached out to you about this to ensure things like download links always work, etc?
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I'd love to see an AetherStore / NextCloud integration. Gotta get AS onto Linux first, but once there is that, having the two work together could be really cool for the SMB market.
