Free Disk Space Applet

Is an applet for the KDE Kicker to show how much free disk space is available on your mounted partitions.

Warning: This applet is not compatible with KDE < 3.4.

Version

Current version is 0.15

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Source

Free Disk Space Applet 0.15

Free Disk Space Applet 0.14

Free Disk Space Applet 0.13-pre1

Previous releases...

Debian

0.15 Debian Unstable Package for KDE 3.4

0.14 Debian Unstable Package for KDE 3.4

Add the following line to the file /etc/apt/sources.list to install KDE 3.4 for Debian Unstable

deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./

SuSE

0.13-pre1 SuSE 9.2 RPM for KDE 3.4 (provided by Mark Volkert)

Changes

0.15 - Rename disk drives to partitions. Icons for preference panel. Hungarian translation. Option to show/hide partition name/ mount point. Debian packages (Ubuntu users can do fakeroot debian/rules binary to generate a package). Fixed dependancy on libkio.

0.14 - Usage indicator. Dutch/German translation (other translations are welcome). Removal of QSimpleRichText to render text (reduces memory usage).

0.13-pre1 - Small layout fixes. Compatibility with KDE < 3.4. (Could someone please test this?)

0.12 - Make the display more compact when Kicker's size allows it.

0.11 - Saving configuration for multiple instances, crash fix in KDirLister, clicking on the slider now changes the Refresh Interval.

0.10 - Ability to select which drives to display

TODO

• Make the applet work for vertically aligned Kicker.
• Option to show/hide usage bar [DONE 0.16]
• Tooltip with extended info.
• Option for vertical usage bars
• Option to show device name instead of mount point [DONE 0.15]
• Option to display only the usage bars (don't show mount point) [DONE 0.15]
• Debian packages (would be great if other people could package for other systems) [DONE 0.14]
• Icons for the configuration dialog [DONE 0.15]
• Make the layout nicer[DONE 0.14]
• Optional usage bar[DONE 0.14]
• Reduce the size of the applet [DONE 0.12]

Installation

./configure
make
su
make install

Debian and problably also Ubuntu users:

./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib/kde3/
make
su
make install

Screenshots

More compact display when Kicker's size allows it:

The configuration window:

Acknowledgements

• Mark Volkert - SuSE packages, German translation
• Charles Barcza (vector) - Hungarian translation
• Marcin Gryszkalis - helping me out with the KDE 3.3 crashes

Author

For comments, patches etc. please contact me:

Vincent Wagelaar vincent@ricardis.tudelft.nl