A Proton Gallery or Sync?
What would be more important for Proton Drive right now? A Gallery separate from Drive, since both are different functions, or a synchronization of devices with internal storage (folders)?
Or even better, a cloud Proton Gallery app that displays all the media from the Proton Drive backup?
Indeed, a Proton Gallery would be interesting, with options and functions of a normal Gallery and Proton Drive, with offline media viewing and control of media saved online, such as the option to keep multiple versions of a Drive file that could be very useful when editing or changing the media.
For example:
- Change and edit photos
- Make them offline or send them to the cloud
- Move photos from one folder to another
- Put the photo we want on the cover of the folder (which we call an album)
- Change the name of the folders
- Tag people in the photos
- Add location on the map
- Share albums with other people/applications
Many have suggested purchasing Ente Photos, an excellent photo application, much better than "Drive Photos" better known as Google Photos which is not a Gallery like iCloud for example, and users want an online Gallery and not a file manager with media thumbnails, so it would not make sense for Proton to buy Ente Photos, when it could make a similar investment in Drive.
On the other hand, if there was some possibility for the Backup photos/videos (media) to be displayed on the Photos page or a separate Proton Gallery, it would be awesome, instead of having to sync storage and photos separately, but I don't know of any Cloud with that possibility, although it is an AWESOME idea that requires much less resource.
Since most people organize their media by folders and subfolders, restoring everything to a single folder is terrible in terms of organization.
But synchronizing the cell phone's storage while maintaining the original integrity of the device would be enough for now, because currently in the cell phone's browser you can send a Folder full of subfolders and files to Backup and download it with the same original integrity, but the problem is that it comes in Zip and you have to unzip it, 400gb on a 512gb cell phone would not be possible to do this unzipping.
So Sync is the Drive solution, although this function exists in the Desktop app, which is confusing not to have in the mobile app.