nextcloud
Remember last view
Right now, the Photo app opens with a (potentially huge) flat list of images. This might be great for some, but when you have lots of pictures and they are nicely organized in a tree structure, this is kind of a shame. In this case, opening the Photos app with the albums view makes much more sense. Therefore, it would be nice to be able to configure what is the default view when opening the app.
More about my use case: I use Nextcloud (among other things) to share pictures that I take (for free) on request to cover various events. My pictures are organized by year, then by topic and shared with the people who've requested me to take pictures. For some users, I have taken thousands of (final) pictures over several years and I keep all pictures for them on my Nextcloud instance, so they can easily come back to get pictures of any events that they've organized. I've configured the default Nextcloud app to be the Photo app, so they don't have to wonder how to get access to the pictures (I've realized after a while that with the default file view, some had no idea they could see the pictures directly online)
As per usual, what should happen: The app needs to remember which view was last active, and open the same one on next start of the app.
The "Your photos" timeline will stay the default view on first run as that is what iOS, Android, Google Photos and others also do and hence people are used to. But if you switch to albums, then Photos should remember it.
@jancborchardt changing the title does not fit the issue described by @bavay - that is also my issue:
"I use Nextcloud (among other things) to share pictures " "I've realized after a while that with the default file view, some had no idea they could see the pictures directly online"
This file view at first place obviously makes sense for files - but not for pictures.
There a two solutions possible: 1.) changing the default view to thumbnail view when the user open the photo app 2.) accept a parameter in the shared link, e.g.: ?firstview=thumb
If this is about sharing, then it seems a duplicate of https://github.com/nextcloud/photos/issues/236#issuecomment-606550812 ?