From kde-core-devel Sun Oct 10 21:59:11 2004 From: David Faure Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 21:59:11 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: [patch] enhanced file properties dialog Message-Id: <200410110000.36713.faure () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=109744555113717 On Sunday 10 October 2004 21:05, Martin Koller wrote: > Hi all, > > I've seen that the current file/directory properties dialog shows also the > disk free/usage from the file system on which the given file is on. > > The problem I see here is, that usability wise this information should not be > intermixed with the properties belonging to the file itself. > Currently it is between the size of the file and the modification time. > > The attached patch fixes this by placing this information below the file-time > stamps (delimited by a separator). That's a very good idea. > In addition I show a graphical representation of the disk usage (progressbar). This, OTOH, I'm not too sure of. It would be a good idea in a "device" properties dialog [we should probably have that, which is another topic]. But in the folder properties dialog, it attracts the eye, even though it's not the important part of the dialog... Also I feel that "97%" doesn't really tell you want you want to know, i.e. whether there's room for the 100MB you want to copy in. (That's the relation to a "folder" dialog: you can see how much room you have "in" that folder... but 97% doesn't apply to the folder, it applies to the device.) -- David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE, Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).