disk full notification?

[Christian Bjälevik]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello
> 
> a friend was using warty/gnome and ran into problems with large
> applications not starting anymore. It took her a while to figure out
> that the disk was almost full.
> 
> Wouldn't it be nice to have a notification system included with the
> default desktop which would warn when disk space is scarce?
> 
> I know it can be done with various DYO or third party scripts, planel
> plugins etc.
> Searching around a stumbled upon knotify, gnotify and libnotify from
> galago but those seem to target notifications in general and I am not
> sure what their status is in gnome/kde
> 
> thanks
> Jani
> 
> 

If I've read the outcomes of the UDU-BOFs correctly we should be able to
use update-manager for this? Please correct me if I've read that in my
sleep :-).

Sincererly,
/Christian