[sugar] Display warnings in sugar

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
wrote:

> Hi Emiliano,
>
> we have this right now: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Designs/Frame#03 So
> in the 8.2.0 release you can trust to have an indication of how much
> space is available.
>
> About having a notification to popup when space runs low, you should
> enter a enhancement request in trac. Perhaps too late to get in 8.2.0
> but could be in a later release for sure.


Right, we absolutely need this.  Hopefully in the future this will improve
when we have robust backup/restore integrated with the Journal, so that old
and unused Journal entries can "fall off" the machine over time and keep
space free.  We'll still need the alert, of course; the notification system
just wasn't quite ready in time for 8.2.0.  A ticket would be appreciated
(assign to interface-design for now).  Thanks!

- Eben


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Emiliano Pastorino
> <epastorino at plan.ceibal.edu.uy> wrote:
> > Thanks for all your answers.
> > The thing is we're having some trouble here in Uruguay with xos that run
> out
> > of disk space. Kids download lots of activities, take lots of pictures
> and
> > videos and they manage to use all free space they have. When that
> happens,
> > it seems that sugar won't load in some cases or takes too long to do it.
> > That's why we want to give some kind of warning when they have used, I
> don't
> > know, 95% of disk space or so, so they can delete some stuff before
> > everything crashes.
> > We'll try to figure out something, but help will be appreciated!
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > 2008/7/16 Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>:
> >> >> Two answers:
> >> >> similar issues.  This is going to be handled by the notification
> >> >> system,
> >> >> which is in its infancy in the upcoming 8.2 release, but should
> mature
> >> >> and
> >> >
> >> > I hope our alert system will use the freedesktop.org standard:
> >> >  http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/index.php
> >> > It is widely used in Gnome, and when I last reviewed it seems to be a
> >> > solid and capable spec.
> >> >
> >> > I believe that was the plan of record in previous conversations; I
> >> > hope I'm not mistaken.
> >>
> >> What we have implemented now is some basic notifications generated and
> >> consumed in the shell, so we haven't added any public API for now.
> >>
> >> The interfaces in that spec look quite good, although perhaps would
> >> benefit from a simpler, alternative API that also abstracts the D-Bus
> >> stuff. Perhaps rainbow should do some rate limiting or permissions
> >> checking, not sure.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the comment,
> >>
> >> Tomeu
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> >
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