Bug 429254

Summary:	Capacity bar/free space indicator's popup menu does not indicate its purpose when filelight is not installed
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Andres Betts <anditosan1000>
Component:	bars: status	Assignee:	Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	kfm-devel, nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	DiskPartitioning partitioningmenu

Description Andres Betts 2020-11-17 16:11:33 UTC

SUMMARY
When left clicking the disk space section in the status bar in Dolphin, a menu appears with various tools to manage disk partitioning. However, some of these applications have non-descriptive names. The menu would be more effective if it contained a header that showed the menu's purpose. For example:

Manage Disk Space
Partition Disks
Manage Partitions

I think this would make it clear to the user that listed applications serve a specific purpose.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-11-17 20:03:19 UTC

Can you share a screenshot of what it looks like for you? On my system, I see two menu items from Filelight which make perfectly clear what the purpose is.

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Comment 3 Andres Betts 2020-12-08 23:50:26 UTC

Created attachment 133943 [details]
DiskPartitioning

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2020-12-09 04:14:21 UTC

Is that the right attachment?

Comment 5 Andres Betts 2020-12-23 13:46:52 UTC

Created attachment 134287 [details]
partitioningmenu

Sorry Nate, it wasn't. I submitted the right one.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-12-23 15:43:56 UTC

Aha, the problem is that filelight is not installed. When it is, it populates the menu with some items that makes it quite clear what the menu it for.

We should handle this case, of course, but I'm having a hard time thinking of a way to make it more obvious. Do you have any ideas?

Comment 7 Andres Betts 2021-01-26 16:10:36 UTC

My idea was to give the menu a header saying something like "Disk Partitioning" and then you would see a list of applications that do just that.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2021-01-26 16:24:13 UTC

This menu shows all sorts of disk-related apps, not just for partitioning. As you can see in that screenshot, two of those apps are related to partitioning, while two others relate to determining free space.

I suppose the menu could show a title saying "Disk-related apps" but that seems like it might be a bit awkward.