Source used space progress bar modification

[BaccanoMob]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Assume I have ~/Downloads as a source (along with a few other folders)

$ df -h ~/Downloads 

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2       234G   69G  153G  32% /

$ du -sh ~/Downloads

5.1G    ~/Downloads

For this source, the progress bar will state 5.1 GB used out of 234GB which is correct. But the background progress bar value feels a bit misleading. It would be nice if the progress bar included 63.9GB (69GB total used space- 5.1GB used by source) in grey color followed by actually space used by source (5.1GB) in blue and remaining in white as currently.

This way if there are multiple sources in the same machine the used space bar looks more accurate

[gtsteffaniak]

Well.. it's misleading either way. I have opted the progress bar to show exact source size because I think thats the least misleading form.

It shows the size of your source at the configured directory against the full size of the volume. It does not show the used size of the entire partition, because many people use multiple folders in the same volume.

In many cases like this when it just comes down to preference, I usually make this configurable. So I could add a source config usePartitionSize as an option so anyone that prefers that can configure each source that way.

[BaccanoMob]

Just giving a pictorial representation of what I see and what I am suggesting.

While the image is not accurate, grey area would be 63.9GB and it still should label 5.1GB of 234GB

because many people use multiple folders in the same volume.

Mostly because of this I want to know how free space I can use, if I transfer files. Because at a quick glance, I feel I have more volume on this source to use. And its becoming confusing when I am currently trying to use NFS volume as well.

So I could add a source config usePartitionSize as an option so anyone that prefers that can configure each source that way.

I feel you think I am suggesting, to say 64GB of 234GB on all sources in the same partition but I am not. Just the grey are to denote this source has other used space. If we were on the same page then its cool.

I think frontend.includeTotalUnusedInPercentage would do? but feels very long and verbose...

Or instead of frontend.disableUsedPercentage: false accepting only boolean, it could also accept a list with values?

For example,

• show | false
• show_detailed (my feature request)
• disable | true

Alternatively, create a config frontend.usedPercentage with similar values as above? since this will act as enableUsedPercentage

[gtsteffaniak]

The multi-stage progress bar is not a standard in almost any software anywhere. I'm afraid that would more confusing than useful.

I think giving users the choice how they want the progress bar to be calculated would be better.

An option to calculate progress bar by:

• partition usage (like df)
• size on disk usage for root folder (like du)
• strict sum (like current)