Design forward: »New« menu flow

[jancborchardt]

Instead of having two separate ways to add files (»New« and »Upload«) we should combine them into a + menu.

The menu would have »Upload«, »New file«, »New folder« (and maybe »New from URL« if we decide to keep the function).

• Step 1: only change the looks and have the interaction be the same as now (with input fields etc)
• Step 2: For »New file«, open a new menu with the preset templates we have for »Document«, »TXT«, etc. For »New folder«, insert the folder directly in the file list and have it in rename mode.
• Step 3: For files, the file should be created and opened with the text editor / Documents, ready to start typing.

Crude mockup:

This would also solve the confusion about the upload button being a »go to parent folder« function. #4479

cc @owncloud/designers

[DeepDiver1975]

On the new file menu we should have:

• New Text File
• New Spreadsheet
• New Text Document
• New html file (I'm not too sure if we need this)

We should keep in mind to allow apps to register a new action there.
For example we could one day add a "New presentation" action while will boostrap some kind of presentation file.

In addition I vote once more to remove the "New from Url" action or finally fix it a make it work.
Missing features from my point of view:

• grab the file name from the disposition header
• default to a meaningful file name (as of to day it you enter http://www.owncloud.org - a file with the name 'www.owncloud.org will be generated )
• basic auth support - the entered url can be password protected

[PVince81]

@jancborchardt the trouble with having "Upload" in the menu is that it requires an extra click for each upload. Also people on IE don't benefit from the "select multiple files to upload" and can only select one file at a time. Even worse, they can't drag and drop files from outside.
So not sure about that one.

And since it is an important feature we should probably keep it visible enough.

[PVince81]

But everything else looks cool 😄

[stefan-niedermann]

whats going on with this issue? If the file-app gets a app-navigation, the "New" should not be in the Breadcrumbs, but the first position, so the behaviour is the exact same like in other apps (news, contacts). what do you think?

[jancborchardt]

Yup, if there’s a sidebar we can move the »New« button there. Then we can also do it like in News and Contacts with it opening to the bottom to choose the type of new element.

[jancborchardt]

Setting this design improvement for ownCloud 8 as the menu needs to be improved.

[jancborchardt]

Look achieved with #18630, keeping this open to fix the flow.

[jancborchardt]

Closing in favor of #19230 cc @oparoz

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