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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KCapacitybar on places item view
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-07-29 17:06:34
Message-ID: 200807291106.34851.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Le Tuesday 29 July 2008, Rafael Fernández López a écrit :
> > I would like to know what do you think about committing the attached
> > patch to trunk.
>
> I'm still against this "feature" as we already discussed on IRC. As a
> summary for the list audience: I honestly think it only provides visual
> cluttering, this information belongs in a properties dialog, not constantly
> right under your nose.

for writable removable devices, i'm not so sure about that. for non-dynamic 
partitions, i agree. but when i put in a key or a usb drive, this information 
is pretty useful and important immediately.

this is especially true in a save dialog, where a properties dialog is clumsy 
to get to and you really need to know an aproximation of how much space is 
left.

what i would also recommend is a tooltip on mouse-over with actual numbers.

as for polling and keeping it syncronized with dolphin, that sounds like a job 
for a sharable class that just monitors these things.

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