UI improvements for Google Photos

[aduh95]

[originally posted by @lakesare in 5275#issuecomment-2190715606]

Some thoughts about the UI of GooglePhotos.

Here is what Uppy shows to me:

• 5 normal albums - this is expected - I also have these 5 albums in GooglePhotos

  

• then goes "NDR discussions", this is apparently the album that was shared with me

• and then go 4 unnamed albums - I do not know where they come from. The photos are mine, but I do not see why one of the videos of the cow in a lake I took is in a separate album. 3 of those albums are just empty.

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Suggestions:

• Can we remove the 4 unnamed albums? Are there any folder properties google api returns to us that could indicate these albums are unusual, or is their only unusual quality the fact that they are unnamed? Even if that's the case - I would go for removing "Unnamed" albums, I think this is almost certainly a GooglePhotos artifact. If someone created an album on purpose, they would sure name it. This won't prevent people from selecting a photo from that album, they can simply select the photo from the "Timeline" album.
• Can we move the shared albums to the fake "Shared with me" folder, like we do in GoogleDrive?

So, taken together with my messages in Slack, I suggest the following interface:

• remove "Unnamed" albums (filter out albums with name undefined and revert most of #5275)
• add 3 fake folders: "Shared with me" (contains all photos/albums shared with me), "Albums" (contains a list of my albums), and "Timeline" (contains both albumless and within-album photos, exactly what we see in GooglePhotos interface).

[Raketten1963]

Hi There, Love the Uppy, but have to agree on the above.

Google Photos was my main driver towards Uppy, and the experience let me a bit down? I have many more unnamed folders than the 4 mentioned, And I really would like to know where they come from.

I like the limitations, that we can only see albums, as displaying all photos would kill the experience, but why all the unnamed ones?

Hope to hear from you.

Henrik

[Murderlon]

I can fix the unnamed folder problem next week :)

[mifi]

I think we can close this because the Google Photos plugin is no longer functional (and will never be https://github.com/transloadit/uppy/issues/5469#issuecomment-2658603884)