Rich workspaces: If there is no Readme.md, don’t show editor placeholder but move into "+" menu

[jancborchardt]

Currently, every folder has the empty "Add notes, lists or links …" on the top. This leads to various issues such as:

• Always uses a lot of vertical space, for every single folder
• People can accidentally click into it
• People end up finding the feature annoying and disabling it completely even though they might find it useful on a folder-by-folder basis

Instead, we should only show it directly on top of the file list if a Readme.md is present. If not, we show an entry "Add description" at the bottom of the "+ New" menu. (This entry of course does not need to show if a Readme.md is present.)

Before	After (if a Readme.md is present, of course still show it directly)

cc @eneiluj @mejo- @max-nextcloud @juliushaertl

As discussed @karlitschek

[karlitschek]

very nice!!!!!

[max-nextcloud]

Maybe this issue should live in the text app?
It would solve #1171.

[ya-d]

Great proposal!! Would also fix #2234 in a much, much nicer way.

Somewhat related: If you’re putting your hands on this feature, may I also suggest renaming "rich workspaces" to something more intuitive? I could think of "Add description", "Add instructions", "Add readme" or something similar. (And maybe move it more to the top of the menu?) @jancborchardt

I don’t think anybody is doing any work in this small area. You’d much rather give a description of folder contents/structure, instructions on how to work with them, a checklist or whatever. Probably the Nextcloud itself could rather be called your (rich) workspace.

PS: In German its translated to "umfangreiche Arbeitsflächen" which really doesn’t make any sense to me. The term is probably hard to translate in general.

[jancborchardt]

@juliushaertl @max-nextcloud right, moving this to Office team project – feel free to move, but note that some part has to be done in the server.

@ya-d good point with the renaming – let’s name it to "Add description". :)

[jancborchardt]

Ah and with this change, let’s make sure to add a "Readme.md" to the root folder of https://github.com/nextcloud/example-files so the feature is still advertised.

[juliusknorr]

Makes a lot of sense. Moving to the text repo since, most of it should be doable in text.

[juliusknorr]

@jancborchardt If you can provide a example files Readme text, we can add that :)

Besides that should all be doable, but moving to 26 as we have final freeze for 25 today.

[juliusknorr]

• Text: Only show the rich workspace area if a file is present
• Text: Register new file menu entry to add the description
• Text: Once creating the new file update the area of the current folder to show the new file
• Text: Rename from ui parts from rich workspace to description
• Server: Check if we can show/hide the new file action depending on the current folder status. If not this may need some extension of the server api for the new files menu
• example-files: Add example Readme.md file

FYI @tobiasKaminsky to align this on the Android and iOS apps as well.

[jancborchardt]

@jancborchardt If you can provide a example files Readme text, we can add that :)

@juliushaertl how about this:

Welcome to Nextcloud! 📱☁💻

Here you can add a description or any other info relevant for the folder. It will show as a "Readme.md" and in the web interface also embedded nicely up at the top.