Well, where do we place system maintenance utilities? It very well would be one, especially if added an ability to clean up unused files.
2012/9/15 Harvey Cabaguio <[email protected]> > Well IMO those are not system settings so I don't think it would make > sense in switchboard. > On Sep 14, 2012 4:59 PM, "Dane Henson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am sorry if this has been mentioned or proposed before, but I had an >> idea for a switchboard plug and I wanted to run it past you. >> >> I would love to see a plug that shows an overview of "disk usage" in the >> style of the Usage section in the mockup seen here: >> >> http://elementary-art.deviantart.com/gallery/35710915#/d4yx34p >> >> I don't think it needs the granularity of filetype, but I think at least >> for the filesystem, it could show "system files" and "personal files". >> >> I envision a switchboard plug with a selectable list of attached drives >> to the left, and the info of the selected drive on the right. >> >> What I don't want to do is create a redundant plug, or even make this a >> plug if it doesn't belong in the switchboard. This would be a tool that >> could be useful for the average user when they just need to see a quick >> overview of how big their disk is, and how much space they have left. I >> find myself wanting a graphical display of disk usage fairly often, >> especially on some of the frankenstein computers I have laying around with >> only 20-40GB hard drives. If the average user doesn't know how to run 'df >> -h', it might be nice to have a native informational tool like this. >> >> Please let me know if it would make sense. I know this can't happen >> until Luna+1 or later, but I had to write it down before I forgot about it. >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff OS architect @ elementary
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