Seafile v12.0 is currently in active development, with an anticipated release by the end of this year. This thread serves as a living document to showcase our progress and key features.
Our primary focus for v12.0 is a comprehensive UI/UX overhaul. We’re committed to delivering a first-class, intuitive experience for online file management.
Below, you’ll find a screen recording demonstrating the new interface:
Could the library’s mirror have a feature to directly flip to a specific page or go to a specific date? This would be very useful for restoring the entire library when a ransomware attack has severely damaged the files.
What is the “view” menu under the file tree ? It may be a kind of “tag” features ?
On the navigation side, I recognize “Files”, “Favorites”, “Activities”, “Published Libraries”, “Linked Devices”. But the three others icons are intriguing, but suggestive enough to guess there is “Help/About” behind the question mark, something around “SDoc” and another about users. Can you tell us more about these ?
option to only show folders (no files) in the navigation side panel, similar to Google Drive
vertical scroll bar in navigation side panel; when files are included in the view, the list could be quite long so it’s useful to see how far you have left to scroll down when browsing, plus you can scroll faster if you can grab the scroll bar
ability to choose a custom colour for highlight (orange) next to the selected sections
do we have a simple toggle yet for a basic dark/light mode for the UI? it can probably be done with css, but an option baked into the settings would be an appreciated upgrade
I would appreciate if you could consider refactoring Seahub’s CSS so one can (color) theme the layout with just changing some root css variables. That would make Datamates theme creator redundant. Please include the folder icons.
Hi,
You tell us about a new Wiki feature [here] build around SDoc, have you a screenshot to share ?
Users often misunderstanding library, groups share, and owner concepts.
I really like the actual way to present libraries and groups, it’s a clear way for users to understand what is a library and how they get access by group share.
I think that if you put everything under “files”, you keep the confusion between folders/files and librarys.
So I think, it’s important to keep the library name, owner, and groups informations clearly visible and identified.
Folder icons are hardcoded atm e.g. <img src="/media/img/folder-192.png" alt="" width="96">. So I have to replace them with each update to match my theme. If you could make use of inline SVGs for example, I can easily style them with CSS.
In the old version, file search will done instantly when you input characters. The drawback is that it sends a lot of useless search queries to the search and some times the interface response slowly.
In the new version, file search will be done explicitly when you press “Enter”. When you type characters, libraries matching your inputs will be prompted instantly. You can use keyboard to navigate to a matched library. In this way, you can quickly jump to the library you want to visit.
