in fact the situation has improved with karmic as there is this popup window telling you that you are running low on disk space now. i think it kicks in as soon as free disk space drops below 2 gb but it might be a percentage, too.
it offers you to empty the trash and warns you that you are running in serious trouble (even though the wording could be still more dramatic, because i witnessed quite some data loss due to this bug).
so the problem is not really fixed, but something changed for the better.
in fact the situation has improved with karmic as there is this popup window telling you that you are running low on disk space now. i think it kicks in as soon as free disk space drops below 2 gb but it might be a percentage, too.
it offers you to empty the trash and warns you that you are running in serious trouble (even though the wording could be still more dramatic, because i witnessed quite some data loss due to this bug).
so the problem is not really fixed, but something changed for the better.