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Bug 167146 - If a user turns off 'count number of items', then right clicking on a folder will no longer provide size.
If a user turns off 'count number of items', then right clicking on a folder ...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 126068
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Preferences
2.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-12 05:55 UTC by mcquaidster
Modified: 2005-02-12 11:34 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8



Description mcquaidster 2005-02-12 05:55:27 UTC
Distribution/Version: debian

As summary, If a user turns off 'count number of items', then right clicking on
a folder will no longer provide size of folder.

I do not see the logic of tying these two functionalities together.  I turn off
count number of items firstly for speed and secondly as I don't really care
about the number of items in a folder.  But I frequently right click on a folder
to find out it's size.  But as it is, I can't have one without the other.

Also, maybe an enhancement, I would endure the speed penality if it listed the
size of folders instead of number of items.  This would probably be much slower
but maybe a hash checksum could be generated for dirs and then it would just
display the size from it's cache of what it believes the folder size to be, and
only recalc if the folder doesn't match the checksum.  Err, maybe that wouldn't
work as to check the checksum would be just as long, but I'll leave that for you
to ponder an efficient way of doing that.
Comment 1 Sebastien Bacher 2005-02-12 11:34:06 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into
our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 126068 ***