The feature you proposed will NOT be implemented. Calculating the actual folder size is very time-consuming and it requires large amount of disk I/O and CPU resources. So, that's why none of the file managers does it. Unless the underlying filesystems support this, doing this is impossible.Telecaster72 wrote:(edit) this might be more appropriately posted in the PCManFM section, moderator please move it if you want (/edit)
Great News! I really like PCmanFM and am happy to see it evolve.Since i am not a programmer i can not help you, but i have a tip that would make PCManFM stand out in the Linux file manager crowd. In _none_ of the filemanagers i have tried (nautilus, thunar, dolphin, konkerour, PCmanFM and what have you) klicking on a folder will show you the actual size at the bottom (size as in MB), only the number of items it contains (not real size). In my humble opinion that is pretty useless information in 99% of the cases. What i want to know is how big the folder is (size) to see if i can squeeze it into a usb-stick or whatever, WITHOUT having to right-click and check preferences, which would be an eliminated unnecessary action if the size was there when you clicked the folder.
Connected with this it would also be good to have the folders also sorted in size (real size) when sort by size is checked, which is a good way to clean out you home directory for example, to see which folders are the biggest space (size) consumers, and not which folders contains the most items (not real size).
Well you see where i am going with this and i am sure many people would like this implemented in PCmanFM, why not have a choice in settings : "show folder size as MB" and "show folder size as number of items"?
Anyway this issue is something that has bugged me since i started with Linux and i would love to see the fast and lightweight PCmanFM (David) beat the giants (Goliaths) Nautilus and Dolphin in this regard.
Thanks for you great work and sorry for my passionated rant
Telecaster
P.S Now something that would be great is if you could implement a split view of two folders in the same window like Dolphin but that is a whole different rant...
You can do split view. Core parts of pcmanfm is now moved to libfm. So feel free to develop your file manager with splitview with libfm. It's quite easy.