Sharing public and private links impossible in windows desktop-app?

[Michael1972]

I installed Opencloud desktop-app in windows 10 as well as in Mac OS Sequoia. Under Mac OS, when right-clicking a file in the opencloud-folder of the finder, there are context-menu-entries for sharing a public link and copying a private link to the clipboard. In my windows-OS, these entries are missing, so, it seems to be impossible to share public- and copy private links directly from the file-explorer. Maybe a bug in latest windows-Opencloud-desktop-version, or is this feature missing under windows?

Thank you for any helpful tip.

[dougle03]

I've confirmed this on Windows 11 with OpenCloud 7.2. The Explorer shell extension is installed (Always keep on this device / Free up space are present), but there is no "Create public link" or "Copy public link" entry. The web UI also distinguishes between "Copy permanent link" (/f/..., requires authentication) and "Public links" (/s/..., anonymous), which isn't obvious. It would be great if Windows reached feature parity with macOS and exposed public-link creation directly from Explorer.

[dougle03]

Windows lacks the app-defined shell menu bridge that macOS already has. The shared SHARE socket command exists, so the missing piece appears to be a Windows Explorer IExplorerCommand/COM context-menu extension that dispatches existing socket commands.

[Svanvith]

we got an issue about this topic opencloud-eu/desktop#640

[tbsbdr]

citing opencloud-eu/desktop#640

We will reimplement the shell extension at some point in the future.

[dougle03]

Would I be right in guessing that the devs are MAC users...?
Achieving parity with Windows Dropbox will be the launch element that propels OC.

[micbar]

Would I be right in guessing that the devs are MAC users...?

That is unrelated. The client DEVs are actually developing on windows.

The shell extension was based on legacy apis and was already treated like a second class citizen by Windows.
With the Windows Store, it turned out that that that api is not supported for store applications.

[micbar]

So this is a confirmed regression due to changes in Windows.