Comment 10 for bug 312491
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| Dominik Stadler (dominik-stadler) wrote | #10 |
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>> Perhaps a better way to solve this issue better is to have a applet watch the disk space
Sorry, but I have to disagree. In my opinion this will just create another place where something is configured without actually solving the problem. What default do you use? What if the user installs some very big packets that quickly exhaust the remaining space? What if the user does not log out/in at all, but rather hibernates the machine all the time like I do (I have uptime 50+ days although I shut down the machine every day), therefore I never log out/in and that is what many people do nowadays.
The really important thing I see is to tell the user that the installation failed because of low disk space and that it will solve the situation if he can clean up some space. This will tell the user what to do and will avoid the high number of bug reports. Just look at the list of duplicates of this bug.
I have to admit I don't know anything about the internas of the installation tools, but if there is no way between apt/synaptics to transport such information than that's what probably needs to be added.
If there is additionally an application that helps the user with making space available by showing how much space is used where, fine, but don't rely on that as solution for this problem.