[filelight] [Bug 489971] Filelight wrongly computes space occupied by backintime snapshots

[Xwang]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=489971

--- Comment #8 from Xwang <xwaang1976 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #7)
> Oh BTW, there is also a visual design problem here.
> 
> Say you have the directory @0 that looks like this:
> 
> @0
> ├── bar
> ├── foo
> └── meow
> 
> Let's further assume there is a reflinked copy @1 and a reflinked copy @2 of
> @1.
> 
> @1 has bar modified.
> @2 has bar modified from @1. @2 also has foo modified.
> 
> i.e. bar is unique in all 3. foo is unique in @2 but shared in @0 and @1.
> meow is shared in all 3.
> 
> How do you visualize that?

Ok, I understand that it is not considered a bug for filelight, however as a
user I found the output of filelight misleading. 

For example du or gnome's baobab both report measures in line with dolphin's
one which IMHO seems more in line with what the user is looking for (namely a
quick and maybe crude visualization of space occupied by folders).

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