Bug#695184: kiwix: Allow/propose setting zim files download location

[Emmanuel Engelhart]

Hi

I perfectly agree with all your remarks and thank you to point these
issues out "officially" with this feature request.

Fixing all the UI issues related to the indexes and ZIM files store
location will be the focus of next 0.9rc3 release.

Kind regards
Emmanuel

Le 05/12/2012 02:55, nodiscc a écrit :
> Package: kiwix
> Version: 0.9~beta6.8-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Hello,
> kiwix should allow selecting zim files download directory through the
> preferences dialog.
> 
> ZIM files kiwix uses are usually very large (French
> Wikipedia dump is 12382MiB) and the user's home partition is usually not the
> best place to store them:
>  * a full home partition can cause running programs to behave strangely
>  * on many systems it is not very large (mine is 44GB)
>  * many times the root partition also contains /home. A full root filesystem 
> partition **will** cause the system to behave strangely.
>  * the default location for downloading ZIM files is a hidden directory
> (~/.www.kiwix.org/) which makes harder for users to find why their drives are
> cluttered.
> 
> It is likely users will want to store their wiki dumps on an external or
> somewhat portable drive. Maybe kiwix could check for available space on the
> download directory partition, and warn the user (under a certain threshold,
> 10GB seems fine) with something like "You only have XX GB of available disk
> space in your home directory. Kiwix usually downloads large files, would you
> like to store them elsewhere to save space on your system? Y/N" -> Select
> downloads directory and save it in the settings.
> 
> I know it can load ZIM files through File -> Load but this is not convenient
> for everyday use, having to load them by hand is a pain.
> Symlinking ~/.wwww.kiwix.org/ to an external drive works, but users are not
> likely to do this (this is my temporary solution, though).
> 
> Thanks for considering this, and thanks for this great piece of software.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages kiwix depends on:
> ii  aria2               1.15.1-1
> ii  desktop-file-utils  0.20-0.1
> ii  libc6               2.13-35
> ii  libclucene0ldbl     0.9.21b-2+b1
> ii  libgcc1             1:4.7.2-4
> ii  libicu48            4.8.1.1-9
> ii  liblzma5            5.1.1alpha+20120614-1
> ii  libmicrohttpd10     0.9.20-1
> ii  libnspr4            2:4.9.2-1
> ii  libnspr4-0d         2:4.9.2-1
> ii  libstdc++6          4.7.2-4
> ii  libxapian22         1.2.12-1
> ii  menu                2.1.46
> ii  xulrunner-10.0      10.0.11esr-1
> ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
> 
> Versions of packages kiwix recommends:
> pn  xapian-tools  <none>
> 
> kiwix suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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