Design Forward : Better structure and new design of all the settings

[ghost]

I think owncloud need a better structure of the settings in the administration page.

There is much more settings in Owncloud 7 than in 6... and this will not stop.

There is no central place for the applications settings (contacts, calendar, galery, ...). Each app should take take of its own settings in a different way.

An ideal setting page for Owncloud should be :

If we compare with Drupal, there is a setting page containing all the settings of core AND of the apps / plugins... They do that by registrering hooks in each app, that the core calls to render the global settings page.
Here is a printscreen of the Drupal setting page, for information (sorry for french version)

[DeepDiver1975]

@jancborchardt

[enoch85]

👍 for this!

[PVince81]

@owncloud/designers

[PVince81]

See #1924 and #4944

[jancborchardt]

@Stephane84 the general approach of making the settings easier is definitely something we want to do for ownCloud 8. In the past we were thinking about two options:

• Putting the admin settings for the relevant apps directly in the apps management. See Design forward: Admin settings for apps should go into the apps management #4944
• Combine admin and personal settings into »Settings« and add a sidebar to that page for better orientation.

(I’m thinking we should go with the second way first, but let’s discuss.)

And yeah, this only goes for ADMIN settings. User settings for apps should always be in the apps directly, in the settings area.

Btw @Stephane84 do you want to be part of the owncloud-designers team? That way you will get notified of design issues. Also, you should join our IRC channel #owncloud-design! :) Then we can better communicate.

[jancborchardt]

Btw @Stephane84 (also @enoch85) a good way to look at the plans and what we thought about in the past is to look into the »Design forward« issues: https://github.com/owncloud/core/search?q=Design+forward&state=open&type=Issues

[DeepDiver1975]

User settings for apps should always be in the apps directly, in the settings area.

because we have some non-gui apps we need to keep a general setting page fro some case - just saying

[jancborchardt]

Yep, I know. That's why the combining of Personal and Admin settings +adding sidebar is something we should do anyway.

[ghost]

@jancborchardt I'll join the IRC channel and we will discuss about it there... Do you connect on the evening ? (Indeed not, is there a way to access the channel via classical browser http comminication ?)

[MorrisJobke]

@Stephane84 https://webchat.freenode.net/

[ghost]

@MorrisJobke Thank you for url, but can't acces from corporate network :-( It is blocked by the proxy with the following reason "online chat" (sorry for spamming this bug report, you may delete this conversation)

[jancborchardt]

We improved this by introducing navigation sidebars for Personal and Admins. :)

[ghost]

Great news ! Hope to see this soon in action :-)