https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433950
Till Schäfer <till2.schae...@uni-dortmund.de> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|INTENTIONAL |---
Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED
--- Comment #4 from Till Schäfer <till2.schae...@uni-dortmund.de> ---
I disagree and would like to argue, why I find this important. Feel free to
close this bug again if you decide otherwise. If its useful, but you would not
like to implement it, we may keep it open for feature contributors. Personally,
I find the new widgets visually appealing and would like to replace my conky
installation. However, in the current state the provided disk free information
are just useless to me (see point 1).
1. Most important, as my example shows, one is unable to distinguish certain
entries, which makes such entries nearly useless.
2. You need to remember which partition has which size to interpret the
displayed information. I would argue, that this is far more technical than
mountpoints.
3. If you do not know about mount points you are maybe better of with the
overall summarized disk free space information. Furthermore, If you cant
interpret mount points its useless to show the space utilization of certain
partitions, since you do not know where to delete files / enlarge partitions /
etc if a disk runs full.
4. Dolphin is another use case: In dolphin some partitions are probably not
mounted. Thus, you cannot always attach useful information to such an sidebar
entry (you actually have partial infos: some mount point, some partition
labels). Furthermore, it is easy to evaluate in dolphin what the partition
actually contains by clicking on the entry.
5. Make it optional: If you still think, that mount points are not the right
level of detail for some users, you may just add another type of disk sensors
which show mountpoints, and keep the old style sensors.
6. I would argue that device path are rather technical, but not mountpoints. I
guess a user most likel knows about paths and subfolders.
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