[PATCH] KCapacityBar - Request

Rafael Fernández López ereslibre at kde.org
Sun Jun 29 10:11:21 BST 2008


Hi,

> 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?

Actually, that is something I was told to change and just forgot. I will 
revisit the suggestions I had and change that text. Thanks for reminding that 
that string sucks.

> KMail could use it for the quota view of IMAP folders.

KInfoCenter as well.

Actually, I am going to modify a bit the proposed patch, so it can be easily 
used from delegates. Probably with a static method for drawing the bar, that 
would be good.


Regards,
Rafael Fernández López.




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