Hi; On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 12:29 +0100, Alex Jones wrote: > Hi Davyd > > Interesting to see that approach to portraying disk usage. Personally, > however, I feel that anyone really wanting this kind of software would > probably prefer to use something like Graphical Disk Map > <http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/>.
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. > As an outsider to this whole process, though, I'm not sure I totally > understand why applications have to be bundled into packages of vaguely > related software like this. Can't distributions make their own minds up? First, do read the thread about the inclusion of Baobab: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-April/msg00112.html The decision to add it to gnome-utils was due to the fact that Baobab is a little utility, with a code base small enough not to require its own package (it did have its own package, though, as it was already shipped by Ubuntu and Debian before the inclusion); it was also actively maintained at the time of inclusion (the latest release of gdmap is dated December 2005). The GNOME Utilities package is a small package that GNOME has kept since the 1.x era (and before); it provides some application other than baobab, like the screenshoter, the file search dialog, the dictionary and the system log viewer, that are not sufficiently big to warrant their own package but at the same time are considered part of the basic offering of GNOME itself. Ciao, Emmanuele (gnome-utils co-maintainer). -- Emmanuele Bassi, E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
