Show videos in Photos View

[jakobroehrl]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The new Photo View looks very nice, it would be awesome if videos show up there, too. Like in the photos app in the browser.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Open the activity tab, look if someone uploads a video
Open nextcloud in the mobile browser an navigate to the photo app

Additional context

Is this hard todo? If not, maybe I can try to do this?

[tobiasKaminsky]

Nice idea, why not :-)

@AndyScherzinger @nextcloud/designers shall we then still call it photos? Or maybe media?

[jakobroehrl]

On iOS it's called Media, in the Browser "Photos"
@tobiasKaminsky Is this hard to develop or just a config change?

[tobiasKaminsky]

As this was somehow quick and it solves a gap in our feature parity, I quickly did this: #6820

[AndyScherzinger]

Hard to tell if media is right since that would also include music, sound or else, no? Not a native speaker so maybe someone else is able name the right term?

[tobiasKaminsky]

Internal it is called gallery, also not sure if this fits better.

[AndyScherzinger]

Hmmm, @jancborchardt @nextcloud/designers what should be the unified term used throughout all clients including web? Right now we have iOS (media), Android (photos) and web(photos) while in case of showing images and video (thumbnails) photos doesn't quite describe it.

[jakobroehrl]

@jancborchardt @nextcloud/designers
🔔 ping

[Bugsbane]

I'd suggest that either Media, or Gallery is fine. Yes, technically "Media" could include audio media, but as a native English speaker, when I thought of photos and videos, this was the first word that came to mind. Gallery doesn't suggest audio media, but generally when thinking of the word "Gallery" I think of still images only. This is not a technical description, but just an association with the word from a single native speaker.

Personally though, I would not be surprised if I clicked on something with either name, to find photos and videos and nothing else.

[juliusknorr]

I personally think photos is also fine, Google and Apple also call their media management "Photos" and it includes videos in there.

[juliusknorr]

cc @skjnldsv for the photos server app