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["Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff" <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's also a cool open-source http://lettercaseapp.com/ but it targets
designers and Mac OS.

2012/9/17 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?
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> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dane Henson <dane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>> 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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