[gollem] Re: Shared space in Gollem/SQL/VFS

[Jeroen Huinink]

"Chuck Hagenbuch" <chuck at horde.org> wrote:
> Quoting Jeroen Huinink <j.huinink at wanadoo.nl>:
>
> > We are thinking about deploying Gollem with the SQL/VFS backend. However
> > what I am most interested in would be setting up a shared space to which
> > all users have access. I read through the archives and I saw people
> > implementing something similar on ftp, where they allow users to browse
up
> > from their Home directory. But what I would like to see was a [Home]
and
> > [Shared] directory. Where the Shared would be equal for all users.
> >
> > If this is not available and requires patching I will look into it, but
> > since this is will be my first look at the Gollem code, I could use some
> > suggestions/pointers.
>
> There is not currently an easy way to do this in the code.

I have only taken a look at the UI and not at the code (yet). But I was
wondering:
At the moment when you enter Gollem and have multiple backends with proper
options set you can select a list of backends and are shown only one. From a
UI p.o.v. it wouldn't be a problem to allow a user to open multiple backends
simultaneously in the same window. How difficult would this be to implement
in the code?
You could extend this and allow users to Move/Copy files directly between
backends and put them in the currently selected folder.

I was figuring that it wouldn't be that hard to strip one of the backends of
user identification and in order to make it "shared". If we have the first
option you can easily setup a side by side Private and Shared backend...

It wouldn't be exactly the same as what I intended at first, but it would
offer the same functionality and the option to view more than one backend
might have other uses as well.

Regards,
Jeroen