From kde-usability Wed Dec 08 12:18:29 2004 From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 12:18:29 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: It is illogical... Message-Id: <200412081018.29465.gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=110250834414139 On Wednesday 08 December 2004 10:13, Martin Koller wrote: > On Friday 03 December 2004 14:32, Maurizio Colucci wrote: > > It is IMHO illogical to put the free disk space in the properties dialog > > for a file or directory. > > For a directoty it does make sense, as a directory can be located on a > device different from its parent or sister directory (think on mounts). > For a file it was useless and is already removed in current CVS. So just do that for mount point dirs. They're the very uncommon case... maybe 3-5 dirs in the whole system. > > A better way would be to provide a visual representation of your disks, > > and show free space in the properties dialog of those disks. > > If you have a look at current CVS you'll see that I added a bar showing the > fill grade in the "Device" tab. > This tab also shows the free space and the percentage of used space. > See attached screenshot. > > If you want to have an overview, you can have a look in kinfocenter/Storage > Devices or kwikdisk/kdiskfree Cool, but what's the point with the combo with device (/dev/*) ? -- Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri --------------------------------------- Engenharia de Computacao 2001 - UNICAMP GPSL - Grupo Pro Software Livre Cell..: +55 (19) 9165 8010 Jabber: gsbarbieri@jabber.org ICQ#: 17249123 GPG: 0xB640E1A2 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability