D21312: [Places] Draw 2px rectangle disk capacity bar underneath mount points

[Andres Betts]

abetts added a comment.


  In D21312#467791 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21312#467791>, @lavender wrote:
  
  > In D21312#467698 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21312#467698>, @ngraham wrote:
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  > > +1 for restoring the feature, which is very useful! I've wanted this myself many times, so thanks for submitting this! However I'll admit I'm not super thrilled about having the capacity indicator bar always visible. I can't quite put my finger on why, but something about it feels a bit off. Maybe that's why the original only appeared on hover? But that's problematic in an era where we need to be designing for touch-friendliness. Maybe it could be a pie chart to the right of the icon but left of the text? Or maybe it's fine as-is and I'm just being a stick-in-the-mud.
  > >
  > > Either way, adding #VDG <https://phabricator.kde.org/tag/vdg/> for comment.
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  > I agree that there's something off about it - to me it is the fact that it's a lot of visual clutter that does not give actionable information. It relies on the user knowing how big the volumes are because for example a 90% filled bar is very different to someone with a 100 GiB volume than someone with a 1TiB volume. I don't have any data on this but I have a feeling most people don't care about how full all their volumes are until it hinders them so how I suggest we do it is for it to stay out of the user's way until the volumes are almost full, when there is a reason to present the information and possible actions the user can take.
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  > Or at least vastly reduce how much attention it grabs because it could just be me but it distracts from reading the volume labels, I imagine it can get draining if you have to scan through a lot to find the one you want.
  
  
  Do you think this and other metrics could just be optional and enabled in settings, for example?

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