As part of this card:
https://trello.com/c/TnSlPz1j/282-55-improvements-to-file-upload
Sam has been completely redoing the UI for upload. Particularly with the focus on multiple file upload and progress displays. However, it will be a dedicated UI for upload not using standard tool forms, so I think what you want can be accommodated well. Hopefully he can elaborate (maybe that card should have some screenshots of the working version?).
- We then create several news tools, which would appear before
"Advanced Upload Tool" in the "Get Data" section:
"Upload file from your computer" "Import files from the web via URLs" "Import FTP uploaded files" "Paste file contents"
I think each of these could be tabs under a single upload tool.
- To further streamline things, we could replace "Your history is
empty. Click 'Get Data' on the left pane to start" in the empty history section with something with links: "Your history is empty. To get started, import data from [your computer], [web links], [your clipboard], [FTP], or by choosing an external data source from the 'Get Data' section in the left panel".
Hmmm... calling it "Upload or import data" might be clarifying.