It shouldn't wait for the drive to be too full, but rather prompt when the trash consumes a certain percentage of the drive. I think it would make sense to keep the "full trash" prompt separate.
For example, one doesn't take out the trash when his entire house is full of garbage; he takes out the trash when it is full. The only difference in this case is that the garbage bin can, theoretically, comfortably expand to a rather large size. People can bump into trouble with full hard drives before GNOME kicks in with a "your hard drive is filling up" message. The reason for this being that the message would have to pop up at a rather critical point to avoid driving people crazy. On the other hand, it would be less common but perhaps more helpful, if a report was popped up when a certain location such as Trash or a certain user's folder, is noticed to have a proportionally unfair share of the hard drive. Sorry, I can't really think how to explain my reasoning properly. (Eeek!). Hopefully I make sense! I'm thinking of the difference between procrastinating, leaving all the cleaning until a critical point, versus having the disk cleaned up routinely, keeping the drive usage consistently minimal, which would be a helpful and quiet method causing minimal obstruction. Bye, -Dylan McCall On 9/17/07, Jacob Beauregard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was reading this article, and stumbled upon this section: > > "Now, being familiar with Linux, this cause wasn't hard to find -- like > Windows, Ubuntu defaults to 'backing up' all deleted files into a > 'Trash' folder, so that they can be undeleted. Checking my '.Trash' > directory, hidden under the home folder, I had 7GB of data over the past > seven months that could be deleted. As a whole, the 'Trash' folder idea > is a nice one, except for the following: When Ubuntu told me I had run > out of space, it didn't tell me I happen to have almost 7GB of data in > Trash that could be deleted to free up space, and didn't offer me the > option to empty it. > > This is, for want of a better phrase, /bad form/. Even Windows will > prompt in advance as disk space runs out to run a disk clean up and, in > the process, empty the Trash." > > > I've only ever actually had this problem once, and didn't bother to > think about it in this sense. > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability >
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