Directory structure change
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Description

After adding support for Shared Drives, It would be interesting to start adding other groupings already available in Google Drive like shown in the below screenshot.

To do so, I propose changing the directory structure (something similar was discussed in T10630) to something like the following:

─── Google Drive
    ├── someaccount@gmail.com
    │   ├── My Drive
    │   │   └── < My Drive contents >
    │   ├── Shared drives
    │   │   └── < list of Shared drives >
    │   │       └── < Shared drive contents >
    │   ├── Shared with me
    │   │   └── < list of Shared with me files/folders >
    │   ├── Recent
    │   │   └── < list of recent files/folders >
    │   └── Starred
    │       └── < list of Starred files/folders >
    └── New Account

The above has the inconvenience of invalidating any user bookmarks (because of tree change) but I believe it is a necessary step to a 'cleaner' structure.

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barchiesi moved this task from Backlog to In Progress on the KIO GDrive board.
jekal added a subscriber: jekal.Oct 12 2020, 11:53 AM

I agree with @barchiesi this directory structure align perfectly with the WebUI version of the Google Drive.

but I have a question: will I still be able to move/copy files between team drives and my drive?

I've opened some bug reports for this list directories:

Add support for 'Shared with me':
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427580

Add support for 'Trash' folder:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427581

Integrate GDrive files into Dolphon's Recent Files (recentlyused:/)
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427583

I did not create bug reports for others (Priority, Starred, Workspaces), because I simply don't use them and not sure if they're supported by the API.

BTW thanks very much for the work on these features, I've benefited immensely from this during college and writing my thesis. I couldn't stand the slow and sluggish UI and how it crashed my browser so many time. I would really appreciate a multi-threaded upload/download that uploads/downloads multiple files at once, but maybe this is for another time/release.

wschlich added a subscriber: wschlich.EditedDec 11 2023, 12:57 PM

Guys, please don't forget to support the "Computers" section as well (on the same level as "My Drive", "Shared with me" etc.)!


This is only visible when you are using the Google Drive for desktop client for Windows or MacOS (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/10838124?hl=en).