From time to time I have the chance to help people switching from Windows to KDE Plasma. Here is one observation. The person wants to get a quick overview of installed hard drives and how full they are. Currently, the quickest way I know of to achieve this is to click on the items below the Devices section on the left panel one by one and then look on the right side of the status bar to see how much space is free. Suggestion: maybe the "Devices" section header could be made clickable or the user could go up past the "/" boundary and there present an overview page of all installed storage devices including information about their usage. Here is a screenshot of the Windows 7 File explorer as an example of how it could look like: https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/windows_explorer_flickr.jpg
(In reply to Gregor Mi from comment #0) > From time to time I have the chance to help people switching from Windows to > KDE Plasma. Here is one observation. > > The person wants to get a quick overview of installed hard drives and how > full they are. > > Currently, the quickest way I know of to achieve this is to click on the > items below the Devices section on the left panel one by one and then look > on the right side of the status bar to see how much space is free. > > Suggestion: maybe the "Devices" section header could be made clickable or > the user could go up past the "/" boundary and there present an overview > page of all installed storage devices including information about their > usage. > > Here is a screenshot of the Windows 7 File explorer as an example of how it > could look like: > https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/windows_explorer_flickr.jpg The KDE has the KMoreToolsFramework: https://community.kde.org/Scratchpad/KMoreToolsFramework The Dolphin is supporting (3 years ago) the spaceinfo widget for detailled disk usage information: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121478/ The KDiskFree (https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kdiskfree/) can be started from the file manager (Dolphin) 'free' status bar: http://i.imgur.com/57Jjdaf.gif
What would effectively fix this is implementing the upstream KIO Places Panel feature that shows free space sliders under each disk in the places panel. Ideally we should just use that code itself rather than a private implementation. This is tracked by https://phabricator.kde.org/T9795
If going the sliders-under-device-names way instead of a dedicated view, there was some discussion about them in https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/axdwzg/dolphin_and_disk_space/ My mockup included optionally text under the slider showing diskspace, I don't know if those would fit there UI/UI-design guideline-wise. Possible problems: -Might look messy -If diskspace as text was fitted there somehow, space taken by possible translations should be considered. On the other hand Dolphin's sidebar can be resized as much user wishes. Note that at least in Save As dialogs the free space slider is shown only when the device item is mouse-hovered or clicked at. Hovering mouse over items is about equivalent to clicking the device and looking at the down right Dolphin corner, where the per-device space is normally shown. To be equivalent to Windows Explorer's device view, sliders should probably be made always visible in Dolphin. In my opinion this all should definitely be made _an option_ since some people would find it messy. Related wishlist bug that was opened https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405098
*** Bug 405098 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***