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My idea is to show some more information inline in the device notifier, both as a desktop applet and both as a panel applet.

The most important i think is the maximum size / minimum size of the storage.

If you see the following image, you hardly able to say which partition (the three ext3 volume is on one external usb disk) you want to mount.



The maximum size of the storage/partition is a good way to distinguish which one you want.

For example the "Open with File Manager" can be "[/dev/sdb2 583/482 Gb]"...

Thank you!

I think you could give title to any partition, so to find out right shouldn't be hard.

Anyway, to show capacity and free space would be great

Lukas wrote:I think you could give title to any partition, so to find out right shouldn't be hard.

Anyway, to show capacity and free space would be great

Woh! A good idea, thank you, i will do that!

Isn\'t this duplicate of:
brainstorm.php#idea46314

No, not exactly. That idea only shows the space left, it does not show the capacity or the space used.

Showing he device file name (i.e. /dev/sdb1 and friends) is not a good idea. Non-geeks are confused by this information, and it does not help much for geeks in most cases, either.

plasmoid on kde-look.org Device Manager seems to have that feature...

Isn't this fixed by KDE 4.4 Device Notifier?

Good idea. Although it should be shown on mouse hover only.

The new version shows the size when there is ambiguity (for instance two devices with the same name or without any name). Does that satisfy this idea?

Based on the lack of response, I will assume that this idea is satisfied by the changed in 4.4.