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This is an absolutely genius idea. I would like to know where you found the 103GB USB Drive though :p
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fizyk
wrote on the 6 May 09 at 07:46
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Yeah, me too ;) Although 'Computer' doesn't show standard mountpoints except for file system '/'
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Esshahn
wrote on the 6 May 09 at 10:43
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+1 Great idea.
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The icon itself should be the indicator - like all gray for an empty drive, halfway blue for a drive that's half full, and entirely blue for a full drive. Or whatever colours you choose, anyway.
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ingalls
wrote on the 7 May 09 at 19:10
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Great idea! +1
I would love a function that does this!
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Could you please tell me what theme were you using in that picture ?
btw: Good Idea +1
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kazade
wrote on the 11 May 09 at 11:03
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I'm glad people like my idea, being able to see all the physical disks like that is something I miss from Windows...
Anyway, I've a few requests about the theme and fonts I'm using :)
The theme is Dust, the icon theme is Tango, the fonts are Liberation Sans 10 with slight hinting.
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cawas
wrote on the 11 May 09 at 12:10
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Also missing on nautilus: a way to see the origin of mount points. When there are many, I have to open Partition Editor in order to know which partition is from what disk, if the names aren't descriptive enough.
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nandayo
wrote on the 11 May 09 at 12:39
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The solution 2 is not a solution : this is different. Baoba is a tool that scan drives, really more heavy than just what propose solution 1.
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sayakb
(Brainstorm admin)
wrote on the 11 May 09 at 18:23
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Image for solution #1 scaled down to thumbnails.
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Pollox
wrote on the 12 May 09 at 02:42
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If you go to the "file systems" tab on "System Monitor", it shows you all the mounted partitions and their usage. Seems fairly easily findable, although it might be nice to have a similar feature integrated into Nautilus.
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vexorian
wrote on the 14 May 09 at 03:35
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System monitor is great at this.
I sometimes wonder if it might be a good idea to add it as launcher to the panel by default.
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bryonak
wrote on the 15 May 09 at 14:53
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It's a very good idea to have a file system overview, but I think GNOME should maintain more of it's own identity instead of copying Windows.
Of course doing it the Windows way will be more familiar to recently switched users, while having the System Monitor somewhere in there offers way more information.
Implementing both might be another good option...
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If you're going to show disk usage of mount points, it makes sense to show that information everywhere. Specifically, with respect to solution number 1, the disk usage should not only be shown in the "computer" view. Whenever a visible icon corresponds to a mount point, that icon should include disk usage info.
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RainCT
(Ubuntu developer)
wrote on the 19 May 09 at 21:29
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It has already been mentioned, but: System -> Administration -> System Monitor, "Filesystems" tab.
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MCEukal
wrote on the 26 May 09 at 21:32
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Great idea, I would like to see it in next Ubuntu version!!!
Maybe network shares should be included as well, so it could be a solution like in Vista Explorer -> Workplace (for example)
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bryonak
wrote on the 27 May 09 at 11:45
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Offtopic: makes me wonder if I should start an idea called "Should we make Ubuntu look and behave exactly like Windows 7?"
Given the votes on many topics here, it should be quite popular ;)
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In the same "wave" of modifications, the name of each device in /dev should be shown. Partitions often have no label, and then umounted volumes are not distinguishable but for their size which is a very poor indicator of which partition am I looking at.
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junk
wrote on the 23 Jul 09 at 10:07
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Go for solution 1! =)
As someone mentioned, the values are already there by the System Monitor File systems tab. They just need to be shown.
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