Re: Working Draft

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:23 +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
> On 3/5/07, Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org> wrote:
>         Am I the only one who doesn't get excited by the prospect of
>         being able
>         to see my disk usage as a ring chart?
>
> Well actually I only use such an application when my hard disk is
> full, which now only happens rarely (when Beagle gets wild on my old
> laptop). And I think this is something less and less users will see.
> So I really don't think this is an exciting application at all. Its a
> geeky tool. 

Have to say it actually took me quite a while to figure out what the
ring was actually showing me, too... it's pretty, but I can't say it's
the most intuitive visualization of disk space usage I've ever seen.

Cheeri,
Calum.

>
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