[PATCH] KCapacityBar - Request

[Robert Knight]

> I read a "usage level" of "199.8 GiB out of 223.6 GiB" as 199.8 GiB out
> of 223.6 GiB are _used_, but not as 199.8 GiB out of 223.6 GiB are
> _free_. Is this just me not being a native speaker?

Indeed.  The text reads inconsistently.  I would suggest just
shortening the text to "Usage" or
"Disk usage".  'Device Usage Level' sounds more technical than it is.
Shorter text also gives
more space for the graphic.

Regards,
Robert.


2008/6/28 Ingo Klöcker <kloecker at kde.org>:
> On Saturday 28 June 2008, Andreas Hartmetz wrote:
>> On Saturday 28 June 2008 10:09:51 Rafael Fernández López wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As you probably had read on the planet couple months ago, I started
>> > a capacity bar to be added to the properties dialog.
>> >
>> > This patch adds the bar exactly where the previous information of
>> > the used/free disk space was before, whether we have to move that
>> > information somewhere else is a different discussion.
>> >
>> > I also think that if we ever wanted to draw the level of free/used
>> > disk space on the places view, for devices, we could use also this
>> > class somehow.
>> >
>> > The patch can be found at:
>> > http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/06/kdelibs-capacitybar.diff
>> >
>> > Some screenshots:
>> > - Forced to 100% to show the look
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog38.png
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog39.png
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog40.png
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog41.png
>> > - Showing actual value
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog43.png
>> > - Showing actual value (RTL)
>> >     http://media.ereslibre.es/2008/04/kpropertiesdialog44.png
>
> This is no really related to the bar, but why does the text read
>
> Device usage level: 199.8 GiB out of 223.6 GiB (11% used)
>
> ???
>
> I read a "usage level" of "199.8 GiB out of 223.6 GiB" as 199.8 GiB out
> of 223.6 GiB are _used_, but not as 199.8 GiB out of 223.6 GiB are
> _free_. Is this just me not being a native speaker?
>
>
>> > Do you think I could commit this (after 4.1.0 tagging), so we have
>> > it for 4.2 ?
>>
>> Hmmm, the vertical position of the label to the left of the bar looks
>> somewhat akward on the screenshots. This likely has more to do with
>> the dialog than with the widget but this is going to be the main user
>> at first (right?) so it should be a good example of look and code to
>> imitate.
>> I don't have a good idea which kind of rearrangement would look
>> better - maybe align the label with the bar or with the text below
>> the bar? Something else? You know the rules for library inclusion,
>> who is going to use it? IMHO this thing is obviously useful anyway...
>
> KMail could use it for the quota view of IMAP folders.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ingo
>