D8227: Show total space in status bar's Free Space widget

[Henrik Fehlauer]

rkflx added a comment.


  In https://phabricator.kde.org/D8227#156817, @anthonyfieroni wrote:
  
  >   %1%% free
  >
  
  
  That's what the progressbar already shows.
  
  Let's take a step back and think about who will need what:
  
  - casual user who does not know what a "GiB" is and only checks to see if the disk is "nearly full" → relative disk usage, i.e. progressbar (graphical, intuitive) or percentage (text, not intuitive)
  - advanced user who cares about how many more docs/photos/... he has space for → absolute disk usage ("1.4 GiB free"), because a percentage is not meaningful in terms of docs/photos/...
  - expert user who wants to know everything → add more information (but which?)
  
  IMHO this also determines the order in which Dolphin should hide items if the horizontal space becomes restricted. You may also notice Dolphin already provides quite good usability for the first two users, no need to change that. Therefore, adding things for the third type of user should be done quite carefully.

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  R318 Dolphin

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D8227

To: ngraham, #dolphin, #kde_applications, dfaure, elvisangelaccio, markg
Cc: anthonyfieroni, progwolff, rkflx, markg, #dolphin, spoorun, navarromorales, firef, ngraham, andrebarros, emmanuelp
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