https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452275
--- Comment #6 from Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> --- (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > > That's expected. The size a partition reports isn't necessarily the space > > occupied by files > > (also the user isn't necessarily allowed to traverse them) > Well, that's a major problem, and I'm somewhat surprised that it's only > coming up now. Inaccurate numbers are inaccurate numbers. The entire concept > of the overview page seems to be unfixably broken, at best pointless and at > worst harmful (for giving you wrong numbers, causing trust in the app to be > lost). > > Your proposal to replace it with buttons is acceptable to me. Maybe add a > third button, so we have three options on the overview when you launch the > app: > > [Scan entire system] > [Scan home holder] > [Scan specific folder...] > > And then we can hide the [Scan entire system] button if the app detects that > it can't see / or something. The idea of the overview page is for the user to quickly be able to scan an entire drive, I think. I must admit that I too don't have much love for it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
