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Idea #20630: Hard Disc And nautilus eye candy

Written by ravibuz the 11 Jul 09 at 17:52. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
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Allow use to rename the hard disk partition as they wish like Videos , Music etc instead of 40gb media. Distinguish the Display inside the Computer like Hard disk , Optical Drive etc.Show the free space of each drive under it in a icon like vista.

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Solution #1: Better Nautilus
Written by ravibuz the 11 Jul 09 at 17:52.
Make the hard disk partitions to be named as the user wish instead of simple 40 gb media.
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Solution #2: Partition Space Visiblity
Written by ravibuz the 13 Jul 09 at 08:34.
And give an icon notification under it about the free space in it like in vista.And allow the contents inside My computer to be allocated the same way it is done in windows.Like separate partitions from Optical drive instead of having all in one line.
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Solution #3: Use DeviceKit-disks and integrate its functions in Nautilus
Written by DnaX the 15 Jul 09 at 13:48.
DeviceKit-disks provide a solution for changing device label in user space and other interesting features.

Fedora 11 preview: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit
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Solution #4: Integrate Baobab into Nautilus
Written by HigH5 the 25 Jul 09 at 09:46.
It would be nice to merge graph into Nautilus, add it like another view in the side panel, maybe.
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Solution #5: hard disk space warning
Written by berthiggins the 10 Aug 09 at 17:35.
When the system disk (/) gets more than 90% full the user should be warned through the indicator applet.
This would prevent the mysterious problems that occur when disk space runs out like printing failing due to lack of spooling and gnome crashes/strange behaviour on start up.
This can be particularly bad on machines where /home and / are on the same partition ( the default on Dell installs)

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andruk (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 11 Jul 09 at 21:22
I like this idea, but good luck getting Nautilus/Gnome to implement modern features.

Akerbos wrote on the 13 Jul 09 at 21:59
I do not like the formulation "like Windows", but basically, the ideas are ok.

epictete wrote on the 14 Jul 09 at 20:27
"Make the hard disk partitions to be named as the user wish instead of simple 40 gb media."

Hi, can't this be easily done in Gparted?

ravibuz wrote on the 14 Jul 09 at 21:19
Try it in gparted still you will see your partitions by there size and not how the user wants

Nitsuga wrote on the 30 Jul 09 at 18:36
@epictete: Anyway it's counter-intuitive

JohnLM wrote on the 31 Jul 09 at 14:47
#1: already doable, however a small nautilus additon for quick access will do no harm. Voted Up

#2: while back since I used nautilus, but I think it was doable as well (without the bar, though)

#3: Developers are people too, and integrating in an ANOTHER abstraction layer aren't exactly trivial. The code exists already in HAL. Voted Down.

#4: Bloating software is against UNIX philosophy. A shortcut to Baobab from within nautilus will do just fine. Voted down.


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