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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: It is illogical...
From:       Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net>
Date:       2004-12-08 12:18:29
Message-ID: 200412081018.29465.gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net
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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/*) ?

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