Re: [Tracker] directory sizes

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Peter Rullmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a general purpose filesystem browser which uses tracker
> and could need some fast way of getting the size of a directory.
> Ideally as fast as getting the size of a file.

By size of directory do you mean recursive size of all its contents?

if so thats easy to do in sql so I could create a dbus method for that

> Wouldn't it be possible to add this to tracker. Tracker allways knows
> when a file size changes, so why not adding the size difference to all
> directories up the hierarchy, when this happens.

COuld do but not sure whether size should be no of items in the folder 
or the cummulative size. Either way we can easily and quickly calculate 
both at runtime

> This would make tracker ideal for filesystem housekeeping tools. These
> could instantly show the 20 biggest files and directories or could
> generate views like SequoiaView. And this without statting the whole
> sub-tree.

yes - will look at this at some point. I do want to write a next 
generation file manager for tracker but will have to wait until GVFS is 
done.

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