A way to get the file size view in KDE 4?

ArneBab · Last edited by ArneBab on Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:59 am; edited 3 times in total

Hi,

Is there a way to get teh file size view in KDE 4 (without installing kdelibs:3.5 again)?

It's one of the features I direly miss...

Edit: You can get it by first emerging "konq-plugins" and then switching to the filemanager profile - views will then contain the file size view again.

ewaller · Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

I am not sure I understand your problem. Both Konqueror and Dolphin shows the file size in human readable format both in detail view and Information sidebar.

If you ask for the properties of a file, the "General" tab shows the file size in both human readable and exact byte count formats.
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cogent · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 12:37 am Post subject:

I was looking for that functionality in konqueror/dolphin as well. But it seems to be missing. So to get that exact thing I think we're out of luck. There is however and alternative application called 'filelight' that happens to be in portage. It Qt too! Unfortunately it's kde 3.5 not 4, so you'll still need to have appropriate libraries, you probably have the libs already if you use apps that weren't ported yet like k3b.

yther · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:27 am Post subject:

@ewaller, OP is referring to a View Mode in Konqueror that shows, graphically, the sizes of files and directories. They show up as colored boxes, ordered according to size.

I'm interested in this as well. It's not something I use often, but when I need it, I really need it. I know I had it in Kubuntu, along with 50 other apps and plugins I have absolutely no use for.

I had thought it was included by default, but apparently that is not true. I've done some half-hearted searching so far, but if it's available as a separate package I haven't found it.

Blaine · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 34

I'm on KDE 4.2.1 and I can activate file size view simply by starting Konqueror and activating file management: Settings -> Load View Profile -> File Management. Now you can activate the file size view: View -> View Mode -> File Size View.

Greetings

ArneBab · Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:57 am Post subject:

ewaller · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject:

That does look I nice feature, unfortunately I don't seem to have it in my 4.2.1 install. Could I bother anyone for whom this works for their USE flag settings?
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gimpel · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:56 pm Post subject:

Filelight for KDE4 is available in the kde-testing overlay
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albright · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject:

like ewaller, when I start konqueror -profile filemanagement I
have only **three** view mode options: icons, details, columns

Who do you have to bribe to get the extra view mode

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ArneBab · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:24 pm Post subject:

albright · Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:05 pm Post subject: