Review Request: Patch to add free space indicator into device notifier plasmoid

[Giulio Camuffo]

In data martedì 25 agosto 2009 10:50:58, Kevin Ottens ha scritto:
: > On Saturday 22 August 2009 16:02:56 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > I see two solutions:
> > - Once the device is made accessible trigger an update of the free disk
> > space every (say) 10 seconds - Make the KCapacityBar appear on hover and
> > trigger an update of the free disk space on hover;
> >
> > I personally like the second possibility more than the first one,
> > Best
>
> +10
>
> That's what we're doing in the KFilePlaces* component because the last
> thing we want is an app constantly polling your disk (and preventing them
> from spinning down) just for that bit of information.
>
> Regards.

Isn't it possible to use INotify, or a similar thing to update the free space only 
when something changed?

Giulio.