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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/gnome-utils$ du -sh baobab 764K baobab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/gnome-utils$ du -sh gnome-dictionary 1.9M gnome-dictionary [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/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. -- 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
