Re: Baobab

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 01:11 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> 
> > > (I think it would make more sense in a future 'Powertools' suite rather
> > > than the misnamed 'admin' suite - it really should be 'management'.)
> > 
> > I was not aware that "du" was part of a "power suite" shell management
> > package.  Perhaps I've got the wrong distribution.
> 
> Uh, dude, seriously - comparing what we include in gnome-utils (part of our
> Desktop suite, and generally installed by default on GNOME systems) with the
> CLI tools shipped in *nix systems doesn't make a lot of sense!

Neither saying that having a tool that shows how much of your disk your
files are taking up belongs to a "power tools" suite makes a lot of
sense, given that on Linux you have had the same tool installed as part
of your basic set of commands since 1995 or something like that.

We are talking about functionality.  Baobab provides a simple
functionality that it's lacking from the GNOME suite of programs; it's
nice saying that the functionality should be provided by Nautilus, but
Nautilus does not provide it in any form - unless you right click on
every folder and select "Properties".

> We used to jam all kinds of things into GNOME in the 1.x period, whether it
> made a lot of sense or not - let's not go down that path again.

It makes more sense than having a system log viewer - but hey, we have
had that for every release of GNOME 2.x.

And, for the love of god:

  ebassi storm:/tmp/gnome-utils$
  du -sh baobab
  764K    baobab
  ebassi storm:/tmp/gnome-utils$
  du -sh gnome-dictionary
  1.9M    gnome-dictionary
  ebassi storm:/tmp/gnome-utils$
  du -sh gfloppy/
  1016K   gfloppy/

Baobab it's smaller than GFloppy (sources and pixmaps included), and we
still ship that useless piece of crap even if it should be Nautilus to
provide the same functionality!

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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