AngelsHolocaust 0 Report post Posted July 28, 2005 hi everyone i have a little change in mind for the information panel (CTRL-L) and want to hear some opinions: at the moment the infopanel displays the following information on the current drive/directory --------------------------------------------- Current directory: E:\DNOSPW 31 files with 1,813,873 bytes 4 subdirs 1,676,017K total bytes on drive E: 147,718,144 free bytes on drive E: Volume label on drive E: WORK Serial number on drive E: 223D-1806 File system on drive E: FAT ---------------------------------------------- which looks fine, but there are several reasons why i would want to change it to this look: ---------------------------------------------- Current directory: E:\DNOSPW 31 files with 1,813,873 bytes 4 subdirs 1,676,017K total bytes 147,718,144 free bytes Volume label WORK Serial number 223D-1806 File system FAT ---------------------------------------------- as you can see i removed the "ON DRIVE ?:" from the lines, which has the following advantages and reasons: a) it removes redundant data from the panel, the 2nd line already tells us exactly where we are B) on UNC drives and in the LINUX version we cannot display a DRIVE CHARACTER anyway, so i would have to add checks which would prevent NDN to print the "?:", resulting in more unnecessary code if we look at reason a) i would not like to add an option for this, because of this would produce even more redundant code/data i would like to hear some opinions on this no expressed opinion is a positive opinion to me :) best wishes Stefan / AH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dandv 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 Nice idea. I'd further separate the drive details from the directory details: Current directory: E:\DNOSPW 31 files with 1,813,873 bytes 4 subdirs Current volume: Type: disk/UNC/etc. 1,676,017K total bytes 147,718,144 free bytes Volume label: WORK Serial number: 223D-1806 --> this also doesn't exist on UNC paths, you still need to make a check File system: FAT Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AngelsHolocaust 0 Report post Posted July 29, 2005 hi ! what i wanted to do is to display the info in a more compact yet clear and logical way what about this: Current Directory: E:\DNOSPW 31 files with 1,813,873 bytes 4 subdirs Current Volume: <-- is Drive better? 1,676,017K total bytes 147,718,144 total free bytes <-- adding the total just to be sure Volume label: WORK Serial number: 223D-1806 File system: FAT second idea: Current: <-- this says it all basically E:\DNOSPW 31 files with 1,813,873 bytes 4 subdirs 1,676,017K total bytes 147,718,144 total free bytes <-- adding the total just to be sure Volume label: WORK Serial number: 223D-1806 File system: FAT we can see the type of the drive via the filesystem i'd rather not add more lines to the infopanel because on the default size of NDN the lower part of the panel (file descriptions) has not much space while looking at the "Current ????" thing i saw that the top of the frame is unused: i think we should give it content: "Information Panel" or "Current Directory/Drive" ? Stefan / AH Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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