Properties for Devices

[keito]

There is no detailed way of viewing free space on a drive in the file browser - pantheon files.

There is a usage-meter on mounted drives, but this isn't very informative. On a large disk (let's say 2TB), the disk can look full at ~97%, but the user has no way of knowing exactly how much space they have... until they run out.

It seems counter-intuitive to have to load a terminal and issue something like `df -h` just to view available disk space, when it really should be an option in the file browser, for convenience.

It would be great if we could get this information added to an optional status bar (which could remain permanent). This feature can be seen in other file browsers, such as nautilus and thunar.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

If you open the properties of any folder inside a drive, it will show you a disk ussage bar.

But maybe we need something more discoverable.

[keito (audioactivist)]

Thanks, this is still one step too many in my opinion.

When I want to find the remaining free space of the drive in question, it seems counter intuitive to have to right click a folder and get the properties of it, in order to do so.

This feature is present in almost every file manager going. It really is a *useful* feature.

I realise the aim of Elementary is to make the desktop sit right, sacrificing some customisability in order to get things right. This is much the same as Canonical's stance. The difference being, the Elementary team are getting it *right*, Canonical... not so much! That said, this is really one of those things that ought to be available to the user, in my opinion anyhow.

[Julián Unrrein (junrrein)]

I assigned this bug to the elementary UX team, so they will take a look at this. Thanks for your input!

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

We should probably offer a "Properties" entry for SourceList items as well.

[Luis Andrés Gonzalez (luisandresgonzalez)]

Just a thought: Maybe a mouseover on the mounted drive icon should show the available disk space.

[Timo Reimerdes (timorei)]

This might also be interesting for /home - kind of the 'most likely to run out of space' mounted volume.