On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Emiliano, > > we have this right now: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Frame#03 So > in the 8.2.0 release you can trust to have an indication of how much > space is available. > > About having a notification to popup when space runs low, you should > enter a enhancement request in trac. Perhaps too late to get in 8.2.0 > but could be in a later release for sure. Right, we absolutely need this. Hopefully in the future this will improve when we have robust backup/restore integrated with the Journal, so that old and unused Journal entries can "fall off" the machine over time and keep space free. We'll still need the alert, of course; the notification system just wasn't quite ready in time for 8.2.0. A ticket would be appreciated (assign to interface-design for now). Thanks! - Eben > > > Regards, > > Tomeu > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Emiliano Pastorino > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for all your answers. > > The thing is we're having some trouble here in Uruguay with xos that run > out > > of disk space. Kids download lots of activities, take lots of pictures > and > > videos and they manage to use all free space they have. When that > happens, > > it seems that sugar won't load in some cases or takes too long to do it. > > That's why we want to give some kind of warning when they have used, I > don't > > know, 95% of disk space or so, so they can delete some stuff before > > everything crashes. > > We'll try to figure out something, but help will be appreciated! > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > 2008/7/16 Eben Eliason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> Two answers: > >> >> similar issues. This is going to be handled by the notification > >> >> system, > >> >> which is in its infancy in the upcoming 8.2 release, but should > mature > >> >> and > >> > > >> > I hope our alert system will use the freedesktop.org standard: > >> > http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php > >> > It is widely used in Gnome, and when I last reviewed it seems to be a > >> > solid and capable spec. > >> > > >> > I believe that was the plan of record in previous conversations; I > >> > hope I'm not mistaken. > >> > >> What we have implemented now is some basic notifications generated and > >> consumed in the shell, so we haven't added any public API for now. > >> > >> The interfaces in that spec look quite good, although perhaps would > >> benefit from a simpler, alternative API that also abstracts the D-Bus > >> stuff. Perhaps rainbow should do some rate limiting or permissions > >> checking, not sure. > >> > >> Thanks for the comment, > >> > >> Tomeu > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Devel mailing list > >> Devel@lists.laptop.org > >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > > > > > -- > > Emiliano Pastorino > > LATU - Plan Ceibal > > Av. Italia 6201 CP: 11500, Montevideo, Uruguay > > Tel: (598 2) 601 3724 int.: 469 >
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