Strigidaemon

[Chani]

On April 1, 2008 08:55:28 John Tapsell wrote:
> On 01/04/2008, Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/1/08, Maksim Orlovich <mo85 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >  >  > Having dialogs pop up at unsuspecting users is not very nice. :)
> >  >
> >  > Taking up a couple of gigs of disk space w/o permission isn't very
> >  > nice, either.
> >
> > Agreed, running out of space on my harddrive because strigi decided it
> >  would be cool to use 20 gigs of space (on an 80 gig hard drive) was
> >  not that pleasant an experience.
>
> So we need sensible defaults.  How about using up to 5% of disk space,
> and then asking the user whether to go above 5%?   That way the user
> is asked if the index becomes 'unreasonable' large, but isn't bothered
> by popups when first using kde.

might be a good idea to have a look at *available* disk space, not just 
*total* disk space. if my disk is already 97% full, then another 5% is going 
to be a problem. ;)

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