I'm using baobab to help me spot directories under my home directory that are being used as temporary and cache storage (akin to /var/lib and /var/cache usage respectively). A flat view of the results would be very useful to this end, as it would allow me to order the subdirectories by size independently of the accumulated size of its top-level parent. Eclipse provides this dual-view functionality in the package browser. See the bottom of this message for my current use case with baobab. Should I open a RFE in Bugzilla? Moreover, do you think it would be hard to implement for an experienced programmer not familiar with baobab's source code or GTK+? Because a "graphical" example might be better to understand... besides the current hierarchical tree view: $HOME .-src ..-foo ..-bar .-Downloads ..-a ..-b ..-unsorted I think it would be useful to have a flat view: $HOME/src/foo $HOME/src/bar $HOME/Downloads/a $HOME/Downloads/b $HOME/Downloads/unsorted Currently I want to exclude from my incremental backup the larger directories in my home ― Especially those changing frequently or easily re-generable (i.e. compiled trees). Since I have hundreds or thousands of directories, I'm using a simple heuristic: I order the directorios by size and focus on those above a few megabytes. Unfortunately the hierarchical tree-view gets in the way, because upon expanding say "$HOME/src" I get dozens of directories, most of which are relatively small, causing other larger children of $HOME to be pushed below src's children in the tree, and outside the view frame. Thanks, -- Javier Kohen <jkohen users sourceforge net> ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802 Jabber: jkohen jabber org
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