Re: Baobab

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 13:18 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:

> > Treemap view is supported by Baobab too, but it's not its major feature
> > - which is a nice integration with Nautilus and (now) with the Search
> > tool.
> 
> The treemap in GDMap really is much more usable. Perhaps we should port
> the logic. I think they call it a cushioned treemap or something,
> because it manages to make squares (as best it can), not rectangles! As
> a result, you don't see thick black lines all over the place where a
> file's representation is of proportions 40:1. Also the colouring is much
> easier to analyse. Each colour in GDMap represents a file type, so you
> can see if you have a massive folder of videos somewhere very easily!
> 
> Just some ideas...

I am sure that if you file RFEs for these features, baobab's maintainer
will be glad to look at them and eventually implement them in the next
release cycle.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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