Bug 359454

Summary:	Hard Disk Space Usage Applet does not handle new media very well.
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Evert Vorster <evorster>
Component:	System Monitor widgets	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.17.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Evert Vorster 2016-02-16 02:09:24 UTC

The desktop applets are nice, and most work as expected. 
However, the Hard Disk applets are not dealing with new media very well. 
When plugging in a USB device, the other devices in the window does not make space for the newcomer. 
The effect is that the bottom graphic is overwritten, and generally looks terrible. 
This is true for both the I/O monitor and Space Usage. 

Would also like an option to specify whether to display disks only, or filesystems by default. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Pop a Hard disk applet on the desktop, and set it up as you like it. 
2.Pop in a USB thumb driveor USB hard drive on the machine. 
3.Look at the Hard disk I/O or Space usage applet, they look all wrong now. 

Actual Results:  
Bottom line is over-written

Expected Results:  
The existing graphics to be re-scaled so the newcomer has a place to go.

Comment 1 Evert Vorster 2017-11-08 05:53:40 UTC

Hi there. 

It's almost two years since this bug was reported, and it was not even acknowledged yet. 

These days everybody has external hard drives, and this bug detracts from the polish of KDE. 

When adding or removing a new hard drive from a running session of KDE, the applets that deal with hard drive usage do recognize that a new drive has been added, but does not rescale to make space for it. 
When removing the device, the entry for the hard drive does not go away.

Comment 2 Marco Martin 2020-05-21 10:52:30 UTC

all system monitor widgets have been recently rewritten from scratch, tough the issue is still valid