Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrea Turrini wrote:
> Dave Plater wrote:
> > Roberto Mannai wrote:
> > > Please read all the bug comments / clarifications :)  this enhancement
> > > request is not about "out of disk space" alert; it is about reporting
> > > the total of bytes your going to install / remove. Now that total
> > > bytes is showed when the installation step is already started (really
> > > when starting to download the packages).
> > >
> > > Other package management tools show the disk variation: SMART and
> > > Synaptics, if I'm not wrong...
>
> Also zypper, in textual mode...
>
> > Yast used to show % disk space usage at the bottom left of the window 
> > but somewhere along the way it was left out and nobody noticed until now.
>
> Yes, but the _disk usage variation_ is very difficuly to note.
>
> The scope of the enhancement is to have a way to know this variation in 
> an explicit and immediate way. The idea is to pop up a summary window 
> with all informations (disk usage variation, download size, overall disk 
> usage) using a new menu item. So this information is prompted on demand.
>
> Other proposal (adding a button, automatically activate the pop up on 
> accept of installation summary filter choice) are essentially discharged.
>
> For the ncurses-gui, there is a proposal and I hope it will be adopted.
>
> Regards,
> Andrea
Maybe at the installation summary screen the unused bottom left section could be used to display explicit before and 
after disk usage.
Regards
Dave P
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