Civileme (and others),
KDE2 includes an improved new version of kDiskFree (kdf), an
exceptionally useful utility that shows you the status of all your
disk partitions, handles all your mount and umount needs according to
/etc/fstab, and offers you a konqueror window on any mount point.
kDiskFree may be left on the desktop "rolled up". It totally
replaces any need for those annoying and ugly desktop device
mount/umount icons, which may be removed. Ignore the error dboxes
for mount and umount - there is no error.
In KDE1, kDiskFree was an add-on rpm and was included in all Mandrake
releases up through 6.1, after which it was dropped for no known or
discoverable reason despite my ongoing protests. The 6.1 kdf RPM
could be installed and worked in 7.0 and 7.1
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The good news is that if KDE2 is installed, the new kdf from KDE2 may
be run permanently by KDE1 by running /opt/kde2/bin/kdf &, then exit
the terminal. In this mode kdf survives shutdown and login. To use
its features, just "unroll" (double-click on the title bar) it.
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Another useful tip from Ron <G>.
I strongly hope and strongly suggest Mandrake realises the value of
this during the KDE install and omits all those ugly desktop mount
icons in future in favour of standardising on kdf for all runtime
disk partition management under the KDE GUI. No more deaf ears,
Mandrake?
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
