How about printing the available recording time, when starting dvsink-file? This is, when someone is paying attention to placing the recording on the right disk and such. The user who starts dvsink-files should watch out for error messages anyway. My idea is, that this makes it the best point in time to give information about free space.
cheers, JW- On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 02:43:44AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-10-18 at 13:53 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> > Thank you for the comments and the review. But the question I really >> > need an answer to before continuing is if such change will be accepted >> > or not. >> > >> > So far me and another user have seen the need for printing free space, >> > while you have stated two years ago that you do not see the need. >> > >> > If the feature is interesting and acceptable, I can brush up the patch >> > into a usable state, but if not I would rather spend the time >> > elsewhere. >> >> It's not my decision any more. > > I guess that means it's mine ;-) > > I would like to avoid cluttering the UI, but other than that I can see > and understand the use case for this (we did lose some recordings at > FOSDEM 2014 due to "disk ran full", for instance, so yeah, I see what > the problem is). > > So if you can do something that doesn't make the UI too complicated, it > will most likely be accepted. > > -- > It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer > > -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 > > -- > dvswitch-devel mailing list > dvswitch-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dvswitch-devel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
