Jolla's Sailfish Utilities - suggestion
Just some suggestions
- Add option to STOP Dalvik completely - not just restart. [released - 1.1.1.27]
- Add option to do BTRFS rebalancing (maybe show BTRFS space status as well) - see https://together.jolla.com/question/30822/root-and-home-disks-full-and-causing-various-problems/
- Most buttons in Utilities call for some drastic actions. They should come with a 5s delay / remorse bar, so that e.g. if while scrolling through the options one accidentally taps on 'restart device' there is time to cancel the command.
feel free to add on.
thanks.
I support proposal #1 strongly. I kill AlienDalvik every time I just need to keep the phone alive and to save power (e.g. in the plane, long meetings etc.) In the future, Android support should hopefully be just an option from time to time, when absolutely required to run some app unavailable otherwise.
objectifnul ( 2014-10-23 20:30:51 +0200 )editIf an option for btrfs rebalancing is added it really needs to state in capital bold letters that it's dangerous and should only be tried in case of emergency, otherwise I can already imagine a flood of posts a la ''my device is bricked and it's YOUR fault!".
nthn ( 2014-10-23 21:22:58 +0200 )editBtrfs balance should have automated option to set ssh on, set and show the password and IP, since the device may become unusable during the balance operation by other means. Also information what to do if one wants to cancel the process. Basically it would be best if balance was run in a state that user cannot do anything else at the same time via GUI. Some progress bar and cancel button that would not be dependant on IO. Boot environment in ram would do.
Manatus ( 2014-10-24 08:36:43 +0200 )editIt would be nice if one could also restart keyboardservice, so clipboard works again..
hnbv ( 2014-11-05 21:31:37 +0200 )editSince running btrfs balance with -dusage=0 filter should be completely safe, it could be added to this utility as is. Just inform user to delete few gigabytes of big files before running it, and there should be enough space to clear up few unused block groups from the device.
Manatus ( 2014-11-13 08:36:19 +0200 )edit