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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Strigidaemon
From: Alex Merry <huntedhacker () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date: 2008-04-02 11:56:07
Message-ID: 200804021256.09892.huntedhacker () tiscali ! co ! uk
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On Tuesday 01 April 2008 21:35:54 David Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 08:55:28 am John Tapsell wrote:
> > So we need sensible defaults. How about using up to 5% of disk space,
> > and then asking the user whether to go above 5%? That way the user
> > is asked if the index becomes 'unreasonable' large, but isn't bothered
> > by popups when first using kde.
>
> IMO, leaving 5% is not sensible. The Windows/Linux standard of using one
> large 500Gb partition is common, but hardly ubiquitious. Leaving me only 5%
> on my 2Gb home partition is unreasonable. There are many use cases where
> temporary disk usage may need more than 5% of a partition. Building
> software is a good example.
I read it as using 5%, not leaving 5%. Which I think is perfectly reasonable,
as long as Chani's comment about what to do if there's only, say, 3% of the
disk space left is taken into account.
Alex
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