File size based folder view

[Casian Andrei]

Hello,

Thank you for pointing this out. It seems my enthusiasm made me forget to look 
for similar things in KDE in the past and I am sorry for this. Now I actually 
remember something about Filelight and I will install it now.

Although it would be nice to have something like a Filelight view in Dolphin, 
probably it would require too much work.

Thanks again for your answer. Btw, Dolphin is very nice and beautiful and 
useful and great :D. I want to congratulate you for this great job and wish 
you luck and few bugs in the future!

Best regards,
Casian


> Hi,
>
> I'm certainly not qualified to answer any GSoC related questions, I just
> want to point out that SpaceMonger seems to have some overlap with
> Konqueror's "File Size View" and with Filelight, which used to be available
> as a KPart in Konqueror 3.x (it's being ported to KDE 4 now, I think).
> Maybe it's better to join forces with these projects than to start
> something from scratch ;-)
>
> File Size View and Filelight are only available as KParts in Konqueror
> though, not in Dolphin, and implementing something like this in Dolphin
> would require a major code change, I think.
>
> Best regards
> Frank
>
> On Sunday 22 March 2009 12:16:46 Casian Andrei wrote:
> > It is about a new folder view mode in Dolphin / Konqueror. I once used a
> > program called SpaceMonger, that I liked much. So all the files and
> > folders can be represented by differently colored boxes with their size
> > proportional to the file or folder sizes.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > I hope you like the idea. You can find screenshots of that old program
> > here http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/scrnshot.php


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Subject: Re: File size based folder view
Date: Marți 24 Martie 2009
From: Casian Andrei <skeletk13 at gmail.com>
To: Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac at googlemail.com>

Hi Frank,

> Well, I did not really do much Dolphin development myself (I think you sent
> this message only to me, not to the mailing list ;-) ). You should
> congratulate Peter, the Dolphin maintainer ;-)

KMail fooled me this time :))
I will resend the message to the mailing list :P

Anyway, I have decided to abandon participating to GSoC this year. I tried to
apply for the 3D mode project for Step, the interactive physics simulator, but
I have studied the source and the initial estimations point to 5+ months of
hard work to get the job done.

Maybe I will have more luck next year. And the good part is that I will have
time to work with my friends on our own projects.

And I should attempt some bughunting for KDE, now that I know exactly how to
get a copy of the KDE sources.

Best regards,
Casian


> Hi Casian,
>
> 2009/3/24 Casian Andrei <skeletk13 at gmail.com>
>
> > Thank you for pointing this out. It seems my enthusiasm made me forget to
> > look
> > for similar things in KDE in the past and I am sorry for this.
>
> That's no problem, don't worry!
>
> > Thanks again for your answer. Btw, Dolphin is very nice and beautiful and
> > useful and great :D. I want to congratulate you for this great job and
> > wish you luck and few bugs in the future!
>
> Well, I did not really do much Dolphin development myself (I think you sent
> this message only to me, not to the mailing list ;-) ). You should
> congratulate Peter, the Dolphin maintainer ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Frank


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