[UI] Add a "Mounted" section to the Files left pane ?

[TtuxX]

What do you think of having a section related to mounted archives in the NC Files left pane ? (replacing the star and folders icons with your app's folder icon that has a link inside it)

This way, the user would have a similar experience to the one he has when mounting an .iso on his desktop.

The whole section would be foldable (with the little arrow on mouse hover), just like the Favorites and Shares entries.

Thank you very much.

[rotdrop]

Nice idea.

[rotdrop]

Actually, after having a look at the comparable files_external view, the look would not be that fancy. Even for the files-sharing app the menu entries on the left are just categories, but not the actual shares. The folders are displayed in the main window.

That would be comparatively easy to achieve. The principal difficulty would be to invent names for the folders ;)

[rotdrop]

After a closer look this seems to be a bit of a nightmare. It involves copying over and changing the files

apps/files_external/js/app.js
apps/files_external/js/mountsfilelist.js
apps/files_external/js/statusmanager.js

and maybe even more. And the code is really a bit ancient ...

[TtuxX]

After a closer look this seems to be a bit of a nightmare. It involves copying over and changing the files

Arf I'm sorry :( Thanks a lot for looking into this problem and digging into it!

[rotdrop]

I am keeping this open. There is a feature branch feature/left-side-bar-menu. We will see ...

[hampoelz]

I would suggest not creating a separate menu entry for each mount, as the menu could quickly become cluttered with multiple mounts and/or with long archive names. Something like files_external currently does would be better: A single menu entry linked to a view that displays all mounts in a list.

It also seems that adding entries in the Files left pane in combination with custom views has been simplified a lot in recent versions?

• https://nextcloud-libraries.github.io/nextcloud-files/classes/Navigation.html#register
• https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/apps/files_external/src/init.ts

[rotdrop]

I would suggest not creating a separate menu entry for each mount, as the menu could quickly become cluttered with multiple mounts and/or with long archive names. Something like files_external currently does would be better: A single menu entry linked to a view that displays all mounts in a list.

It also seems that adding entries in the Files left pane in combination with custom views has been simplified a lot in recent versions?

* https://nextcloud-libraries.github.io/nextcloud-files/classes/Navigation.html#register

* https://github.com/nextcloud/server/blob/master/apps/files_external/src/init.ts

Looks simple enough. I'll eventually have a look at files_external and how they do it. It should be possible to more or less just copy the code as the goal would be to give an overview over a collection of mount-points which is just what files_external does here.