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Idea #20430: Move disk space warning (karmic) from a dialog window to a notification

Written by Apiman the 26 Jun 09 at 16:39. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
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Trying karmic I've seen that it warns you about low disk space on any partition. The problem is that it uses a dialog window and you must press a key to get rid of it. The warning itself it's a good idea but that method it's not convenient at all; it's very annoying.

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Solution #1: Use the new eye candy notification system instead
Written by Apiman the 26 Jun 09 at 16:39.
Instead using a dialog window, use libnotify. It's much more beautiful.
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Solution #3: Use both notification and alert box.
Written by Darwin Survivor the 27 Jun 09 at 11:15.
Have the notification used when disk space is relatively low (10% for instance), but have an alert window (with action button) when disk space becomes critical (2 or 3% for instance)
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Solution #4: Change the color of the notification system for important things.
Written by Maxime7101 the 29 Jun 09 at 17:10.
The notification system has to be different if for example a new song is playing or if the disk space is low.

So I purpose to change the color (maybe red), or make flash it.

L2Image

It could be a great thing if the user should click the notification system, to show that he became aware of the warning.
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Solution #5: Tray icon
Written by Lachu the 1 Jul 09 at 14:20.
Add tray icon called "show notification". In this mode user might read and interaction with notification.
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Solution #6: Notification logger
Written by twocool the 1 Jul 09 at 21:31.
Create a daemon to log all notifications and a GUI application to see it.
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Solution #7: Use Indicator not OSD
Written by nachokb the 8 Jul 09 at 15:12.
Many of these proposal (including the screenshot) violate the NotifyOSD guidelines (no interaction, disposable, non critical notifications). For these kinds of stuff, I think the Indicator Applet is the appropriate medium. This was pointed at by cheesehead in the comments. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Interaction
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Solution #8: Use a popup indicator
Written by da brain the 8 Jul 09 at 22:45.
Use something like the update notifier that pops up from the top bar. It will flash to the user that it is running out of disk space.

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cheesehead (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 26 Jun 09 at 22:17
The standard for what types of information should use notifications vs alert boxes is detailed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD

Is this an idea is to change low-disk-space warnings from alert box to critical notification with alert-box fallback?

aliam13_2 wrote on the 29 Jun 09 at 08:20
I think using percentage should be avoided as 1% of a TB drive is 10.24GB (according to Google) and a system with 10GB free is not low on disk space at all.

ReneL wrote on the 7 Jul 09 at 06:40
Solution #6: "Notification logger" is already being handled in
idea #19527: "Notification bubbles, once faded, are gone forever."

korsairtuga wrote on the 7 Jul 09 at 19:03
I agree with #3, but not using percentage.
The system should use an alert window only when the free space left is less than 1GB.
It would be useful for me.

deathsshadow77 wrote on the 7 Jul 09 at 22:41
for number 5, the indicator applet would be a perfect use for this

sayakb (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 10 Jul 09 at 10:17
Solution 2 "Require confirmation only once" deleted as of irrelevance reports.

chauncellor wrote on the 17 Jul 09 at 18:37
Notify-OSD is not for persistent notifications.
Notify-OSD is not for persistent notifications.
NOTIFY-OSD IS NOT FOR PERSISTENT NOTIFICATIONS!

days_of_ruin wrote on the 19 Jul 09 at 03:57
The whole purpose of Notify-OSD is that you do NOT have to click on notifications, any solution that requires that is DOA.

madrakas wrote on the 13 Oct 09 at 11:20
All critical errors an dialogs must not be showed in notification area. It's not what it was made for. It's like showing that your meesenger buddy is on line next to some proces crash report.

OpenNingia wrote on the 13 Oct 09 at 13:51
A warning is not a critical error by definition, it is slighter worse than an information hence could be treated as one.

However I will always believe that notification without interaction are a buggy and incomplete system.


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