When there is an item in the trash, the panel-plugin trash icon has the tooltip "Trash is full". I think this is wrong - when a bin it full it cannot fit any more, it needs emptying. Also since you can tell whether or not there is something in the trash by looking at the icon it is really not providing any more information. Instead it would be better if it said "xyz MB in trash" on the tooltip.
Calculating the size of the various trashes is difficult, since they can reside on external media (even network shares), hence this cannot be done synchronously. And asynchronous calculation would add quite a bit of logic (not to mention that it might break the trash interface) for little use. How about fixing the wording? What about "Trash contains files" instead of "Trash is full"?
>How about fixing the wording? What about "Trash contains files" instead of "Trash is full"? Yes that would be better. >Calculating the size of the various trashes is difficult, since they can reside >on external media (even network shares), hence this cannot be done >synchronously. Well the ~/.Trash directory must exist, and is probably the primary trash folder a user would be concerned with. Would it be possible to just give the used space in that folder, and set the trash tooltip to something more general for example: "Trash contains a few files" or "Trash contains more than 1GB" ?
Changed to tooltip text to "Trash contains files" in revision 28909. Marking the bug as resolved:remind and set the milestone to 2.0.0 to show the trash size some day.