[RFE][PATCH] Display free space on device in panels

Pavel Tsekov ptsekov at gmx.net
Fri May 19 13:07:21 UTC 2006


On Fri, 19 May 2006, Jindrich Novy wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 23:42 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 16:36 +0300, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>>> Btw if anyone on this list wants to share his thoughts on this patch - now
>>> is the time.
>>
>> Personally I don't like the highlighting of the free space indicator. I
>> find it rather distracting. It suffices that the top of the panel is
>> highlighted, no need to highlight that info for the active panel. IMO
>> the conditional attrset (REVERSE_COLOR) etc should be removed.
>
> I noticed your reply related to the free space widget highlighting also
> on bugzilla. I my opinion it makes the look-and-feel of mc more
> consistent when the free space widget is highlighted. The reasons are:
>
> 1) Everything what is written directly to the panel frame is highlighted
>   (current working directory, directory history widget).

I second that.

>
> 2) You are sure that you are looking at the correct free space in the
>   panel you are working in. When it wouldn't be highlighted, you need
>   to look up at the panel title to be sure whether it's active since
>   the the highlighted widgets are on top of the panel. This may save
>   you one eye movement ;)

How about moving the free space indicator to same line on which the panel
title is displayed ? How is it implemented in other file managers ?



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