[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev50896 - src/kits/tracker
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 12:06:49 +0000
25 janvier 2017 12:51 "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit:
Am 25.01.2017 um 02:37 schrieb John Scipione:
Different people have different size drives and expectations which is
why this should be a setting. It isn't very important so it's fine to
keep it at 5% for now, but don't pretend like it is a magically great
solution.
"Sane defaults, not maximal configurability" only works when you have a
sane default, in this case, we don't.
Yeah, but this isn't really working even then; it's not that "fullness" is a
per user
interpretation, it's actually a per volume interpretation.
That means while 5% on one drive may be plenty, on another drive, even 10%
can be critical.
IMO having a default, even if imperfect, is just fine here -- not everyone
will agree with the
outcome, but I really doubt it's worth a per drive setting.
Not even that: on the same drive, you can also have various different use
cases. For example, if you have a large "data partition" with 50GB free, it is
a lot of space if you are using it to write some code and compile it. But if
you decide to switch tasks and dump some blue-ray disks, you soon find out how
fast these 50GB can fill up.
Maybe instead of switching instantly from green to red at a fixed threshold,
there should be a gradient of yellow and orange in between. This way you have
more chance to see a "somewhat red" bar before you run into problems?
I would be ok with a setting if it was global and/or was used for something
really useful, such as actively trying to release disk space (cleaning caches
or whatever). But just for making the size-bar turn red, I think it is not
really needed.
--
Adrien.
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