Bug 637222

Summary:	YaST Software Management has no option of disabling the "Disk Space Warning" dialog
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3	Reporter:	Forgotten User EGKOvZW2-J <forgotten_EGKOvZW2-J>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Thomas Göttlicher <tgoettlicher>
Status:	VERIFIED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	tgoettlicher
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	openSUSE 11.3
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Description Forgotten User EGKOvZW2-J 2010-09-05 15:36:24 UTC

User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.11

I have over 99% disk usage on one of my partitions (it's supposed to be that way).

Each time I open YaST -> Software Management, I get an annoying "Disk Space Warning" dialog (which is not even centered on the YaST window). There seems to be no way to disable it permanently (like "Don't show this warning again" checkbox or something).


Reproducible: Always

Comment 2 Ladislav Slezák 2010-10-18 13:22:45 UTC

The warning is displayed by YQPkgDiskUsageWarningDialog class in yast2-qt-pkg.

Reassigning to yast2-qt-pkg maintainer...

Comment 3 Thomas Göttlicher 2010-10-18 13:43:51 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.2.15
> Version/10.11
> 
> I have over 99% disk usage on one of my partitions (it's supposed to be that
> way).
> 
> Each time I open YaST -> Software Management, I get an annoying "Disk Space
> Warning" dialog (which is not even centered on the YaST window). There seems to
> be no way to disable it permanently (like "Don't show this warning again"
> checkbox or something).
>
You are right. You cannot disable this warning and I don't see a reason to make it configurable.

Comment 4 Forgotten User EGKOvZW2-J 2010-10-18 14:26:59 UTC

I guess you don't consider usability bugs as "real" bugs?
This is a usability bug, and fixing bugs is the needed reason here.

Comment 5 Thomas Göttlicher 2010-10-18 15:02:31 UTC

If I hadn't considered this bug as a "real" bug I had closed it as INVALID. But I closed it as WONTFIX because I think there are more important bugs and I don't want to work on a bug that is a very individual concern and it doesn't make sense for most users to ignore disc space warnings. 

If you are really interested in a solution make the threshold for disc usage configurable. See: YQPkgDiskUsageList.cc: #define MIN_FREE_MB_WARN  400

And if you think this "fix" is worth for other users please provide a patch. We will carefully evaluate it.