the gtkfileselector could give details on disk usage

[Tom]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Wishlist item for added functionality, surprisingly missing although most file-browsers have it - or is it down to each different package to sort out?

When saving a file there is no indication of how large the file is and there's also no indication of how much space is empty in the desired location (although i've never seen a file system offer both bits of information which suddenly seems quite obtuse of them).

Anyway, thanks again - keep up the good work
Regards and happy new year from
Tom :)

PS ... Extra Blatherings worth ignoring...
Odd really. I didn't notice before now because i tend to have plenty of file-browser windows open showing me more than enough information but that means my desktop is quite cluttered. I often work with a disk that's almost full because my disk is so tiny and old. I would guess that most people trying Linux for the first time would similarly install on an old disc/system first before committing their main machine to it, jic.

Something that impressed me about linux was the way it didn't grind to an almost complete standstill just because i used most of the space on my disc. I don't get discs to keep them empty, i get them to use and Windows didn't like that, lol.

[Tom (tom6)]

typo - where i said 'file system' i meant 'file-browser', obviously and i wasn't sure it's up to the file-browser or the individual packages to consider the issue

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

could you take an screenshot of the dialog you're seeing ? that's probably not a nautilus one.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Pedro: I think he means that when you "save as" something from firefox, the dialog window does not say how big the file is or how much space do you have left.

[Tom (tom6)]

Firefox is where i first noticed it but it seems to be prevalent - almost every package i try has the same lack of information. If it happened with one package and not another then i would have noticed it sooner and written the bug report to that particular package. The fact that you haven't noticed it and don't understand what i'm describing suggests it's a minor issue and doesn't behave differently in other packages either.

Compare and contrast with what happens in Synaptic package manager where it clearly shows in the status-bar how much space will be taken up with the new package. Or compare with other file-browsers such as Windows explorer where again it shows how much space the file will take up in the grey border near the Save button.

Clearly Explorer is quite inferior but in some little features like this it seems quite far ahead. Nautilus could perhaps leap-frog into the lead by also showing the amount of empty space left in the location the file is about to be saved to, something that i havent noticed in any other file-browser, yet.

[Tom (tom6)]

Ok, in the 'Save Image' i have circled 2 good spaces to use, the lower one that i have drawn an arrow to is the one that other file-browsers, such as explorer, use.

[A. Walton (awalton)]

This is a feature request in GtkFileChooser, not Nautilus.

[Tom (tom6)]

Ahah, thx for changing the package affected to something more appropriate. :)

[Tom (tom6)]

lol, ok i'm in Windows (yuk, its like a recurring nightmare) and it doesnt tell me either. I can't believe it. I was so sure but i was wrong.

[Tom (tom6)]

It would be a nice feature to have though

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The request is an upstream one and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org

[Vish (vish)]

Is there any news on this bug? Has anyone sent it upstream?

This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream.
Once submitted upstream , do report back here with the upstream bug number.
Thanks in advance!

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Tom (tom6)]

Hi ?

What information was requested?