GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47899
Home and Trash icons on desktop should display size beneath it
Last modified: 2018-01-02 18:49:58 UTC
(This bug was spun off from a comment in somewhat related bug 42168.) It'd be nice if the trash icon, below ``trash'' had it's size in the same way that most directories have the number of files they contain. I don't worry about the trash 'till it's got a few MB in it. This would make it easier to use. (As a possible extention, the user could select a cutoff size that displayed a very-overflowing bin when the size crossed the threshold.) ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-27 06:45:28 ---- I think a conscious decision was made (by Arlo? I'm not sure) to only show one line of captions on the desktop, even when other locations show more than one. I'm not sure what the rationale was. Assigning this to Arlo for consideration. ------- Additional Comments From bfrantzda@hmc.edu 2001-03-27 11:12:00 ---- That may be. I'm not sure how easy it would be to have the trash have a contense size as opposed to a number of items, but I think most users would prefer to know how much space things are taking up than how many files there are. ------- Additional Comments From arlo@workthatmouse.com 2001-04-10 01:37:08 ---- I'll consider... ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:31 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
*** Bug 48136 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixing this is not trivial since the trash icon on the desktop is just a.desktop file. in my opinion an elegant solution to this would be to use a symlink on the desktop to the trash: folder instead of the .desktop folder, would create some other niceties too.
Does trash even need to be a file or folder? I don't know if it is possible to syslink to a uri. I'd love if trash could be a meta- item. Don't know how possible that is though.
Anyway it's no good the trash can looks overflowing as soon as there's a single zero-byte file inside. This has been criticised as one of the most pertinent design errors in Windows and MacOS before and is one of the reasons why trash can's don't work with typical users because they're scared by the full trash and empty it immediately after deleting anything. The trash can should look overflowing only as soon as it *is* overflowing. A sensible limit would be 5% or 10% of the $HOME filesystem capacity.
Hmm, I'd prefer the trash to actually show that there are files in it. If it is possible I'd go with the option of using more than two images (empty, full) to display how much the trash is used. The user would set a limit which would indicate 100%. If this limit is reached, the trash appears to be full, if it is exceeded, the trash will have a overflowing icon. Beneath the limit I'd suggest that there are 4 to 5 different pictures, indicating how much of the limit is used.
Wow, this bug is so old - please let me bring it back to your mind. The way trash works is so stupid. I do fully agree with #5 and #6. At the moment the tooltip of the trash-applet shows how many files are in your trash can. This Information is so useless, we want to know how many mb or even gb it uses...
Very old bug. Simply: "ping!".
*** Bug 496650 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 48137 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/