Bug 483978

Summary:	Overview - System Monitor - Disk Icon displays 'total space'
Product:	[Applications] plasma-systemmonitor	Reporter:	jimbo <loudsquid>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	ahiemstra, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	6.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
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Description jimbo 2024-03-19 08:19:47 UTC

After updating to Plasma 6 the Disk Icon in the System Monitor now presents useless information. Previously it showed how full the root disk was, which made sense. But now it shows the total of all disks (including mounted disks), which is completely useless. By default no one wants to know their entire disk space combined, that is something a custom item that someone would have to create themselves.

The icon is useful to see at a glance if you are hitting the upper storage limit on your local machine, but if you have mounted disks on a server then it makes it completely useless. 

I've changed it back manually, but it shouldn't have changed in the first place. It should be changed back to display the local root drive information only.

Total Sensors: Root Total Space, Root Free Space
Sensors: Root Used Space
Text-Only Sensors: Root Total Space

You also need to go back and rename the above so that the UI doesn't look messy (i.e. it says Total Space instead of root Total Space).

Operating System: KDE neon 6.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-25-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Comment 1 jimbo 2024-03-21 05:39:09 UTC

Sorry, I made a mistake to the sensors above. Here is the corrected version:

Total Sensors: Root Used Space, Root Total Space
Sensors: Root Used Space
Text-Only Sensors: Root Total Space

You also need to go back and rename the above so that the UI doesn't look messy (i.e. Root Used Space -> Used, Root Total Space -> Total).