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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    RE: It is illogical...
From:       "Daniel Molina" <dmolina () amnet ! co ! cr>
Date:       2004-12-04 17:21:22
Message-ID: auto-000006409046 () amnet ! co ! cr
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The Progress bar would allow you to see the % of disk space available.  I
don't think there is a good way to show the absolute space without making
the interface looking more crowded.  

Adding more information to the tooltip as proposed earlier seems to be a
good option (IMHO), as tooltips are generally associated to the idea of
receiving more information on the object under the mouse.


Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Sébastien Laoût [temporar] [mailto:les83plus@free.fr] 
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 8:00 AM
To: KDE Usability Project
Subject: Re: It is illogical...

Le ven 03/12/2004 à 21:02, Ra1n a écrit :
> Daniel Molina wrote:
> > Colorize the icons is a good option, but then you will have to define 
> > rules on how to merge the icon + usage color + selection color.
> > 
> > Hmm how about placing an small "progressbar" vertically to the left or 
> > under the icon showing it usage?
> > 
> BeOS does this, and it's very useful despite the fact that doesn't say 
> the amount of free space (this could be done by a tooltip or a 
> properties dialog)

I'm entirly for this proposal.
I was just knowing that Windows Longhorn (the next version) will do it.
It's better if it comes from BeOS :-)

But it still a problem : we don't care of the fill percentage of a disk
but the amount of available space.
For exemple, I want to download a 170 Mb file, I would look at the disk
if I HAVE 170 Mo available.
If it say "you have 5% available", I'm not advanced: I don't know if I
can download/copy the file I want.
I think it was already discussed here...

Indeed the progress bar would be a very great thing, we could think how
to show the available space and not the percentage...

Séb.


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