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1.1 KiB
30 lines
1.1 KiB
15 years ago
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What's this?
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Josef Weidendorfer
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Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de
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FSView is a tool for showing disc utilization in a graphical form, much
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like the UNIX command 'du'. The visualisation type choosen is a treemap.
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Treemaps allow for showing metrics of objects in nested structures, like
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sizes of files and directories on your hard disc, where the the size of
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directories is defined to be the sum of the size of its children.
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Each object is represented by a rectangle which area is proportional to
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its metric. The metric must have the property that the sum of the
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children's metric of some object is equal or smaller than the objects
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metric. This holds true for the file/directory sizes in the use case of
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FSView.
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It's provided both as a Konqueror KPart plugin for the mime type
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inode/directory, and a standalone executable.
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This was meant as a small test application and usage tutorial for
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the TreeMap widget developed within KCachegrind. As it's quite cool
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and small, it is now provided as a Konqueror addon in KDE.
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For a full featured graphical 'du', see KDirStat. It's quite similar
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to FSView, but allows for lot of cleanup actions.
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Happy space hunting,
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Josef
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