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[Cody Garver <codygarver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe we can organize a campaign to badger this guy's font manager
project<http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=66>into
releasing some GTK3 source code?

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dane Henson <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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