[Panel-devel] soliddevice available space

[Kevin Ottens]

Le lundi 08 octobre 2007, Alex Merry a écrit :
> On Monday 08 Oct 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 08 October 2007, Petri Damstén wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > soliddevice data engine does not return free space for hdd. In hdd
> > > applet I now get it with statfs call. Could this be moved to the
> > > dataengine?
> >
> > IIRC, Kevin-of-Solid (he loves it when you call him that) said that
> > such information should come from elsewhere, e.g. libksysguard ...

Yes, from the scope of the lib that's what makes more sense. But nobody said 
that dataengines must map libs 1:1. ;-)

> > as 
> > far as i'm concerned, i think this will be a common request and the
> > data, regardless of where it comes from, should be added to the data
> > engine. however, i don't think we should be using statfs calls
> > directly, but KMountPoint (if necessary, does Solid provide the mount
> > point or just the device?) and KDiskFreeSpace, both of which are in
> > libkio ... example usage can be seen in
> > kdebase/apps/dolphin/statusbarspaceinfo.cpp
>
> Or, indeed in the Places data engine.

+1, that's where it'd make sense, in particular since Kickoff could and should 
use it.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
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