Bug 332418

I think it should be replaced by a "home" icon that opens your home folder, and the free space should reflect the space left on your home partition.

Having access to an "administrator" feature directly from the main menu seems overkill. We should reserve the main menu for things that need to be discoverable by average users. Average users want to manage their files, not monitor processes and CPU usage.

Not to mention that the hard disk icon in the Windows and MacOS menus open the file browser, and people are used to that.

We had the home folder open for a while, but a massive amount of people came forward to show their dislike with it. They (including myself) all wanted System Monitor back.
As much as we would like to think that nothing will hang in a Linux Desktop, it does, and easy access to the system monitor to kill off those processes is beneficial for the user.

I agree with Magnus :-)

I agree with Magnus too.  Given that we've already tried to remove the System Monitor and had lots of complaints, let's leave it in.  Let's just rename the label in the Main Menu so it says something like "System Monitor" :).

I still think the system monitor belongs, at most, in the default list of favorite apps. But I guess I'm outnumbered :)

(In reply to comment #5 from Hans Petter Jansson)
> I still think the system monitor belongs, at most, in the default list of
> favorite apps. But I guess I'm outnumbered :)
> 

I agree with you.  System monitor, in my opinion, doesn't belong directly off of a desktop's main menu, but since this battle was already fought elsewhere, we at least should have our naming of the icons right.

Created attachment 183499 [details]
screenshot

Would something like this look better and be more intuitive?

This will require new translations and since it's not a critical bug, moving to 11.0

(In reply to comment #7 from Magnus Boman)
> Created an attachment (id=183499) [details]
> screenshot
> 
> Would something like this look better and be more intuitive?
> 

That looks perfect!  :)

Created attachment 183527 [details]
Patch

Find the patch attached

Thanks for the patch :)  There's a test package with it here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/federico-mena:/10.3/openSUSE_10.3/

Created attachment 188557 [details]
main menu capture

The menu looks like the attached image 

1. "Total" got cut
2. "Home" sounds better than "Disk" as disk is slightly misleading, the free space is not of the entire disk, just the home partition, but that is just cosmetics.
3. One decimal is required, as there is 5.7G free but only 5 is shown.

Created attachment 188560 [details]
Updated patch

>1. "Total" got cut
Fixed by removing size request in the attached patch

>2. "Home" sounds better than "Disk" as disk is slightly misleading, the free
>space is not of the entire disk, just the home partition, but that is just
>cosmetics.
Fixed in the attached patch

>3. One decimal is required, as there is 5.7G free but only 5 is shown.
I think someone else was working on this so have not looked at it.

Created attachment 188616 [details]
Updated to show 2 decimals

Updated again two show free and available disk space with 2 decimals

Created attachment 188617 [details]
Removing total

Update of patch to remove "/ xx.xxG Total".

It will only say "Home: 5.67G Free" now.

Removing the "/ x.x Total" was just to save space in the tile correct ?  hmmm - I kind of like seeing free and total information. What about only showing 1 decimal place and just removing the word "Total"

Also removed the deletion of gtk_widget_set_size_request from the network tile since we are only changing the hard drive tile and I'm not sure that we want the network tile to grow unrestricted - ie would it be possible to have some long device name in there that would make that tile and thus the size of the right pane way too big.

Commited to svn.

*** Bug 349578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

submitted to factory - v 0.9.9