Recently, I guided an occasional Plasma user when she wanted to sort out which of here files were already copied to an external USB drive and which ones were newer or missing. The following is one of the findings for potential improvement. This is a rather minor thing, but I thought it is still worth reporting. When examining folders, the user was unsure what the "Free Space" in the filesystem section means. There was the impression it has something to do with the folder itself. THOUGHTS: Maybe it is possible to make it clearer that all info in the lower section relates to the filesystem and not to the folder itself. Interestingly, the filesystem info section is not visible for files, see second screenshot.
Created attachment 123061 [details] Properties Dialog for a folder
Created attachment 123062 [details] Properties Dialog for a file
This is an excellent observation. Everything else on that page is about the item itself, so adding general information about the filesystem like that is confusing. My first inclination is to say that this information should only be shown when you're actually getting the properties of a disk or mountpoint, and for that case, the non-relevant or inaccurate information should not be shown. Thoughts?
+1 I never liked those file system infos there in the first place. However, adding yet another tab to the dialog also doesn't sound like a good idea.
Patch: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24476