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This is an idea for an improvement for the information panel in Dolphin. Look at the top panel below:



The idea here is that the information panel should show information for folders recursively, including their subfolders. So for instance it should show the size of all files in a folder and all of its subfolders. The same should be true for the "details" view in dolphin, the "size" column should show the total size of all items within a folder, including the contents of subfolders not just the size of the folder "file". This is infeasible right now but should be possible with Nepomuk down the road.


This is part of my series of Dolphin ideas

wouldn't this make the info panel very very slow?

That is why I said it is infeasible without nepomuk. Obviously recursively searching through every folder would be way to slow, but using nepomuk's metadata store should make it reasonably fast.

I voted this up because I could use this

BTW: how did you get that actions panel in Dolphin? I could really use that too...

The actions panel is another mockup. I generally combined several mockups into one for simplicity.

Nepomuk does not index all directories Also this info is not always used

But having a button More info or similar to count sizes on demand solves both. It could even be used by directly hitting hard drive (and I think its better way to go, since nepomuk can go out of sync for new files)