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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: It is illogical...
From:       ra1n <pk20it () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2004-12-08 20:45:02
Message-ID: 41B775C9.1090302 () yahoo ! it
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Peter Postmus wrote:
> Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday 04 December 2004 17:19, Ra1n wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Daniel Molina wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I Agree, the progress bar shows you both disk full and free percentage
>>> in a simple way, if you want to see the exact amount of free disk space
>>> you could look at a tooltip or in the properties dialog
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Tooltip with a nice graphics (pie chart, "progress" bar) and some 
>> numbers, like "XGb total, YGb free".
>>  
>>
> I've watched this thread, and think it's a great idea. But IMO we have 
> to be careful not to put too much information in the tooltip. Otherwise, 
> users will need to spend more time locating the information they need. 
> Besides, if we were to add a visual representation of the free/used 
> percentage of space to the icon, why add another one in the tooltip? I 
> think it's overkill. Please just show the percentages and actual numbers 
> in the tooltip.
Right, the progress bar on the icon should provide a graphical 
representation of disk space, while the tooltip provides exact 
free/occupied space amount, and percentage, the the properties dialog 
could show both

Luca

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