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Re: [gcmd-dev] ALt+Enter File Properties


From: Piotr Eljasiak
Subject: Re: [gcmd-dev] ALt+Enter File Properties
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:05:15 +0200

> Piotr:
> >     Size: xxxx bytes of xxxxx bytes
> 
> Honestly, i think what interests is the free space, not the total one, and 
> users prefer to be lazy ...  
> 
> Why not another line 'Free disk space' ? There's no need to keep that window 
> short. 
> The term 'Size' should probably then 'Folder content size' or so, to be clear.
> 
> I checked with nautilus, they say 'Free space' and 'Content'.
> They also count the items, well, i think this is not really important in 
> daily usage.
> 
> But free space is. For example, since i started my own HD video clips, some 
> shared 'exchange' partitions (in a small home-net) run out of space rapidly 
> and i need to keep and eye...
> 
> Konqueror shows a full 'Device usage' line like in df -h. Krusader and 
> Dolphin are using the same module. This module is overkill IMHO, or, given 
> the amount of information, at least it's bad layout.
> Well, they give the mount point, that's also useful, but they call it 
> 'mounted on', for every folder *sigh*.


What about:

        Mount location: /home
        Free space:     34 GB of 300 GB (11% used)

?

        
> Total Commander ... ?
> 
> # ~ mi: total commander
> # -bash: total: command not found

Total Commander just uses system dlq window for displaying the
properties - we have more freedom here ;o)





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