https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381508
Bug ID: 381508
Summary: Make Dolphin calculate folder size in same units as
file size (in KB, MB, GB, TB, etc.)
Product: dolphin
Version: 16.08.3
Platform: Debian stable
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: view-engine: details mode
Assignee: dolphin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: j...@forestfield.org
Target Milestone: ---
I noticed this on GNU/Linux but I believe this feature does not depend on the
OS.
Folders are listed with the size column showing the number of items inside the
folder. This is useless for determining which item in a folder uses up the most
space on the volume.
Instead, the size column should show the amount of storage space that folder
takes up (in KB, MB, GB, TB, etc.). As the folder's content changes, the size
is recomputed keeping this information updated.
I understand that implementing this will generate a lot of disk/network access
and that's okay. I'd like to have the option to see this information because
I'd like to have an always-updated view of which folders occupy a lot of space.
I'd like to get this information without another program (such as K4DirState)
or running:
du --summarize --human-readable * |sort -hr |less
on the command line to get a list of items in the current working directory
sorted by their size (largest -> smallest).
This should be a togglable feature set to off by default, as it is in MacOS's
Finder. I'd like it if one could turn this on, wait while the folder sizes are
computed, and sort by size in a more meaningful way (no more using radically
different units for folders than files).
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