> For those scenarios, structured storage fits the bill. The app requests folder permission and the user, using system UIs, grants permissions on the folders they want to enable.
I see your point, but why isn't this the case for document management apps? Also, Nextcloud can be extended with plugins, some of them falling in the document management category.
> Further saying "let the user decide" works great in theory and with a considered, rational userbase.
Nextcloud is mostly used by people that like to self-host their services, so in this case we fall into the rational userbase category.
The overlap is precisely that part which matters: The directory access portions. Both need to ask the user to choose which directories to access, and access all the files in those directories.
What they do after opening the files is very different, and irrelevant. FWIW I use both Nextcloud and that gallery app.
I see your point, but why isn't this the case for document management apps? Also, Nextcloud can be extended with plugins, some of them falling in the document management category.
> Further saying "let the user decide" works great in theory and with a considered, rational userbase.
Nextcloud is mostly used by people that like to self-host their services, so in this case we fall into the rational userbase category.