ROX-Desktop drive icons: show free space in tooltips

[amigo]

As far as getting free-space info into the tooltips for the icon, I don't think there is another way -unless one patched the filer itself to show such info for mount points.
Personally, I just use gtkdiskfree. It has a dynamic display, which means that it is also polling, but less expensively than a bash script would be.

The problem with using the tooltips is that the AppInfo.xml must be re-written every cycle and could be corrupted while doing so. I think a right-click action (to launch some indicator) would be a better solution.

Polling should be avoided like the plague.

[Pelo]

i use gtkdiskfree too with my Toutou Wolx 2014

[sunburnt]

Amigo is correct as always. Avoid polling!
Sadly there is no common way to trigger other code like this.
Perhaps an inet type damon that polls /sys and /proc for triggers,
then reads a list of apps, etc. to activate or write to.

[musher0]

If you're a bit of a masochist, would the info given by partview make you happy?

[LazY Puppy]

In my T.O.P.L.E.S.S. LazY Puppy 5 Systems I had made patches of

- /usr/local/bin/drive_all
- /usr/local/pup_event/frontend_funcs

It is to enable/disable by the config files and has option to refresh/update manually by right-clicking the drive icon - besides some more options not yet in standard Puppy.

Works in all of my T.O.P.L.E.S.S. LazY Puppy Systems (tahr, unicorn, vivid, xenial, slacko - 32bit/64bit all WoofCE).

See attached images.