Cubby - Open Source File Sharing

[girish]

I created a new app section now - https://forum.cloudron.io/category/132/cubby

[A Former User]

@girish Went ahead and added some requests. Are you and @nebulon open to contributions?

I am definitely quite invested in this so sorry for the insane number of issues! I'm sure some of these are things you already had in mind but I figured it might as well be tracked.

[nebulon]

@atrilahiji no worries this is great, a lot of things are in vague states or not yet fully wired up in the UI. But with the issues I can work through them one by one.

[A Former User]

@nebulon Hahaha perfect. Since its fairly early in the development of this app, I might try to take a look and see if I don't get overwhelmed trying to contribute and knock some of those off too. Thankfully I mostly work with Vue

[girish]

@atrilahiji Yes, of course, contributions welcome. That's why it's opensource. Feel free to open PRs as well! Currently, lots of basic docs like install instructions etc is lacking, but it will come

[A Former User]

Until 5 years ago, Cubby was the name of a proprietary LogMeIn app with a similar purpose. Hopefully, you guys won't have problems with IP rights.

https://alternativeto.net/software/cubby/about/

[girish]

@hillside502 Oh, thanks for pointing that out! Something to keep in mind before we launch this for reals.

[A Former User]

Name suggestion: "Fileron"

[A Former User]

My hope for this is to eventually replace Nextcloud for file storage. And move to Cubby for files, SoGO for email/cal/contacts, and so on. Moving away from one app that does everything kind of ok to multiple good specialized apps.

[scooke]

Today I went to install Cubby. As I scrolled down to its place in the App Store I coudn't help but compare everyone else's logos/icons with the plain file folder icon of Cubby. You probably are planning to create a more stand-out logo/icon for it, so here is a suggestion:

Rather than creating a derivative of YAFF (yet another file folder), take the existing Cloudron logo and turn that into a file folder-looking image. I suppose with the angles it might end up looking more like a partially open door, if it stays vertical. You'd have to tilt it forward somewhat in order to get the darker background "folder" effect.

And further along those lines, if you have more custom made Cloudron apps, each could be a variation of the main Cloudron icon.

Just some thoughts. Congratulations.

[girish]

@scooke yes, the folder icon is really just a place holder logo. We need to find some time to make some real logo.

[ruihildt]

That's great!

I'll try this out, I share your frustrations with regard to the current solutions.

For me the most important part is the sync aspect from mobile/desktop. I want to have a straightforward and firstclass experience sharing files between my devices.

Do you have in mind what the future workflow will be like in that regard?

[robi]

The About menu once logged in needs some love..

[mehdi]

@ruihildt From what I understood of the post, the idea is to use existing WebDAV sync clients. So there should already be good ones for all platforms.

[nebulon]

@robi ha, yes lots of placeholder content still.

For anyone interested in the collabora integration, if you install collabora on the same Cloudron and then edit the config.json for cubby like the following with your collabora domain, it can already open ods and odt files:

{
    "collabora": {
        "host": "https://office.example.com"
    }
}

[ruihildt]

@mehdi Do you have any good recommandations in mind?

[mehdi]

@ruihildt On the Linux side, I believe Gnome and KDE both have native support for mounting webdav, not syncing to a local folder though. Not sure on other OSs.

[robi]

@nebulon said in Cubby - Open Source File Sharing:

@robi ha, yes lots of placeholder content still.

For anyone interested in the collabora integration, if you install collabora on the same Cloudron and then edit the config.json for cubby like the following with your collabora domain, it can already open ods and odt files:

{
    "collabora": {
        "host": "https://office.example.com"
    }
}

Does this not work with OnlyOffice?

[MooCloud_Matt]

Maybe storage already on S3, it's easier to maintain and it's scalable, redundant, easy to have a remote backend for storage.

A good fit for the new multiserver cloudron.

[girish]

@moocloud_matt maybe you can open feature request on github