Re: Baobab

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

Hi Davyd

Interesting to see that approach to portraying disk usage. Personally,
however, I feel that anyone really wanting this kind of software would
probably prefer to use something like Graphical Disk Map
<http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/>.

As an outsider to this whole process, though, I'm not sure I totally
understand why applications have to be bundled into packages of vaguely
related software like this. Can't distributions make their own minds up?

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:21 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> Perhaps this has been discussed, and I missed it, but...
> 
> Looking through the change sets, I see gnome-utils has now included the
> application Baobab. This is quite a handy utility if you wish to analyse
> your disk space usage, but I am wondering if this application really
> forms part of what one would consider 'Desktop'.
> 
> It very much seems like a 3rd party utility at the moment that has
> simply been included in the core release.
> 
> This harks back to the discussion about what should be considered
> 'Desktop', but for the case of Baobab, perhaps we can distill this down
> to three fundamental questions:
>  - is it mature enough?
>  - is it useful enough to the majority of our users? and
>  - could this idea be integrated more tightly into existing software 
>    that the user is familiar with (eg. making it a Nautilus View)
> 
> --d
> 
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Alex Jones <alex weej com>