Re: baobab: Flat view



El lun, 22-10-2007 a las 16:59 +0200, Fabio Marzocca escribió:
> 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.

Because I want to see the N most heavy folders in the whole hierarchy at
a glimpse. I.e., listed one beneath the other. None of the views you
mentioned provides that information as far as I can see.

For you reference, look at the "Dependencies" toggle in Gnome's system
monitor's View menu. Sort by memory usage and enable that option, and
you'll see some memory heavy process hidden way down the list under
"gnome-session" or some other process (bash, eclipse's launcher, etc.) I
very welcomed the latest release of System Monitor, where that option
was introduced, and I'll gladly see it introduced to Baobab.

Thanks,

> 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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> >
> >
> >
-- 
Javier Kohen <jkohen users sourceforge net>
ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802
Jabber: jkohen jabber org

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