Re: baobab: Flat view

["Fabio Marzocca" <thesaltydog gmail com>]

Why don't you use the 2 graphicals views (rings-chart and treemap) to
help you in this? It is a matter of a look, and you'll get you most
heavy folder in a second.

-Fabio-

On 10/22/07, Javier Kohen <jkohen users sourceforge net> wrote:
> 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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