Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources kfileplacesview should show more information about each volume, like the volume label (if available) and the usage. Regarding the volume usage, I did a quick mock-up which I already presented some days ago in #dolphin: http://eliasprobst.eu/~elias/stuff/screenshots/kde4-issues/dolphin/volume-volume-spacebar.png Regarding the volume label: I've already looked for a generic way to change the label of a volume, but it looks like Solid/HAL currently do not provide this or I haven't found it. Displaying it should be easier - functionality is provided by Solid.
Good news regarding the label support: there's a successor developed by HALs fame of David Zeuthen, which also includes support for reading/setting device/volume labels: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-May/011560.html I think this would be a good chance to begin supporting DeviceKit in KDE (I don't know, whether they will be incompatible, so that DeviceKit support blocks HAL and whether DeviceKit will provide a HAL-compat module, but as far as I understood, it shouldn't be a problem adding DeviceKit-Disks support to KDE without breaking HAL support.) The "free space" information in kdelibs for each volume could be retrieved by DeviceKit too. The good thing about DeviceKit: as far as I know it is designed to be portable (at least portable to other POSIX compatible systems, don't know about Win). Where does this whole thing go to? Is it now Solid+kdelibs+dolphin? Regards, Elias P.
The used/free space is now shown for mounted volumes in 4.2 (currently still trunk, thanks a lot for implementing it!) but DeviceKit support is still missing in KDE.
Changed title and reassigning (however I don't know if this is more Solid related)
*** Bug 165893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 185987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Five years from reported date and still no method to change Devices name in Places tab? Why this is so hard and still can be easily done in Windows and I guess in OSX too?
(In reply to comment #6) > Five years from reported date and still no method to change Devices name in > Places tab? Why this is so hard and still can be easily done in Windows and > I guess in OSX too? It can also be done easily in KDE/Gnome/whatever nowadays, it just needs someone to implement this. This bug just serves as external input to developers as idea what they might pick up in case they're interested in working on a new feature, but there's no guarantee such a feature might be ever implemented at all - if you urgently want/need a feature - see what you can do on your own. Besides that, this is something which needs to be done in Solid first, then it can be picked up by other applications (e.g. Dolphin as suggested above). As Solid uses 'udisks' to handle disk related stuff, the label of a volume can be set using 'SetLabel' as documented here: http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem.html AFAIK udisks2 exposes this method only for volumes which allow setting a label. I'm assigning this now to 'solid' as the UI parts are either implemented or not that important. Besides that, the title was updated to reflect the changes (HAL → DeviceKit → udisks → udisks2) of the used toolkits throughout the last years.
Created attachment 83215 [details] Patch to add setLabel for solid storagevolumes Is this anything like the right direction?
This bug is reported on libsolid which is the kdelibs4 version of the solid library. It is now in maintenance mode. If you think it should still be fixed in the KDE Frameworks 5 version of solid please move it to or report a bug on frameworks-solid.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/solid/-/merge_requests/7
I have made a merge request out of the patch of Orion Poplawski at https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/solid/-/merge_requests/7 Let me know if there is anything to change.