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On 2015-02-09T18:22:40+00:00 Derek Freder wrote:

For me it would be nice to have the option to enable recursive file-size 
display in the default-view of thunar.
When searching why a bunch of nested folders needs so much disk-space, it's 
always a pain to "right-click-->properties" each single folder and its 
sub-folders to see the total size. ( As painful as using du + cd in the console 
)
For this use-case it would be much more convenient to directly see the 
total-size in the thunar default-view.

I am aware of the ext4 / inode problem ( circular file-system references) in 
which the size-checking would end up in a infinite loop, displaying "... 
checking file size" forever.
However I think this would be no problem. It's just a special-case and should 
be treat as that.

In any case, the attempt to display the total size ( which will succeed
in 99% of the cases ) is more informative than always display the same
4.0 KB on each folder.

If you dont like the idea to have the recursive-file-size per default,
we could add a flag in the thunar-preferences in order to enable it. (
Personally I would vote for having the feature as default )

If you agree with the idea, and weather it should be the default
behavior, I would start the implementation and provide a patch.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunar/+bug/1419545/comments/4


** Changed in: thunar
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: thunar
   Importance: Unknown => Wishlist

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