On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:53 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > > You could move the "Free space" to the sidebar , while keeping the > > folder info below the view. > > http://imagebin.ca/view/E78cg6gH.html > > > Mockup > http://imagebin.ca/view/HG6_jn.html > > > This doesn't make much sense to me. What does free space have to do with > the sidebar.
In the Mockup , I'v moved the drives/partitions below the user bookmarks. The sidebar is the location where the drives/partitions are always listed. Keeping the drives/partitions below the user bookmarks gives the "Free space" information more context. The user will notice the Free space changes while selecting different drives. > The free space is only shown when there is no other status > message to report, At Present , the location of the "Free space" isnt really intuitive , By showing the Free size only sometimes , it seems that the info is being displayed only when something is being selected , A couple of folks have asked "if the free-space information was for the particular folder?" It seemed like a ridiculous question but thinking about it , the status of the folder or the selected object is normally shown there but the free space was the one thing which doesnt really fit as a _status_ of the folder or item that is selected. XP shows the selected-file size or the size of the files in the folder in view , while Win7 doesnt show any size info unless files are selected. Another question I'v heard was how do i get back the "free space" to be displayed? They didnt realize that selecting nothing [clicking on the empty space] would bring back the "free space" info. OSX prevents this by always showing the "free space".[iirc] > i don't think its important enough to get its own > full time widget in the ui. > Free space is an useful information especially while file management/backup to drives. Win7 uses graph/bar to display the information when viewing the drives. OSX displays the free space always. We need some constant location to display it in nautilus too. -Win7 type Graph is probably not possible... -We could display it always but we have to look out for the extra-pane. Moving it to the sidebar seemed ideal. -- Cheers, Vish -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
