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[Dane Henson <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is the dilemma that I ran into when thinking about a font plug.  My idea for a font plug was to manage all of the installed fonts, but that seemed like more of a standalone application than a plug.

I would tend to lean more towards a system utility approach like Sergey mentioned.  My current partition for elementary is only about 10GB, and I brush up against the "disk too full" warning quite a bit.  If we were to add a button for "disk cleanup" in that dialog, we could direct the user to the disk usage plug with some cleanup options.

I understand that there are some utilities out there that already show disk usage (baobab), but I thought it would be nice to have an elementary-specific utility, whether it be a plug or a simple application.

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, where do we place system maintenance utilities? It very well would be one, especially if added an ability to clean up unused files.

2012/9/15 Harvey Cabaguio <harveycabaguio@xxxxxxxxx>
Well IMO those are not system settings so I don't think it would make sense in switchboard.

On Sep 14, 2012 4:59 PM, "Dane Henson" <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am sorry if this has been mentioned or proposed before, but I had an idea for a switchboard plug and I wanted to run it past you.

I would love to see a plug that shows an overview of "disk usage" in the style of the Usage section in the mockup seen here:

http://elementary-art.deviantart.com/gallery/35710915#/d4yx34p

I don't think it needs the granularity of filetype, but I think at least for the filesystem, it could show "system files" and "personal files".

I envision a switchboard plug with a selectable list of attached drives to the left, and the info of the selected drive on the right.

What I don't want to do is create a redundant plug, or even make this a plug if it doesn't belong in the switchboard.  This would be a tool that could be useful for the average user when they just need to see a quick overview of how big their disk is, and how much space they have left.  I find myself wanting a graphical display of disk usage fairly often, especially on some of the frankenstein computers I have laying around with only 20-40GB hard drives.  If the average user doesn't know how to run 'df -h', it might be nice to have a native informational tool like this.

Please let me know if it would make sense.  I know this can't happen until Luna+1 or later, but I had to write it down before I forgot about it.

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