Bug 140146

Summary: [Wish] More Informative and Meaningfull Progress Display
Product: [Applications] filelight Reporter: Kent Fredric <kentfredric>
Component: generalAssignee: Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: martin.sandsmark, maty78485, tau0, zefo
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Kent Fredric 2007-01-16 08:42:06 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

When filelight is processing the disk, it spends an inordinate amount of time cataloging the disk.
While this time cannot be avoided, it would be nicer and more informative to visually show whats going on somehow other than a  number clicking over. 

What would be nice is a visual representation of the progress so far.  As the data is obviously built from the leaves down, you could either group the branches parsed as individual pies and slot them together when the parent branch is ready ( ie: all branches brother/sisters are completed ). 

Alternatively, it would be nice to just have a singular pie which grows as the data is collected, with gaps in the pie shape indicating that that ring of the pie was not yet completely done.

It wouldn't nessecarily be accurate, but it would be beneficial in cases where there are a small number of shallow-nested big files which were detected quickly, but there is a large number of deeply nested small files which are prolonging the display of the products, when they dont have an impact on the final visual representation.
Comment 1 Jozef Riha 2011-08-07 18:08:46 UTC 
also filelight could give an approximate progress based on number of used i-nodes for an ext3 filesystem
Comment 2 Martin Sandsmark 2011-08-07 22:34:58 UTC 
the last suggestion I can probably implement when I get around to fixing the hardlink-issue (and I actually start looking at inodes). Thanks for the suggestion, though. :)
Comment 3 Pablo Alonso 2023-09-22 09:54:04 UTC 
Is this issue still being worked on?

In the mean time I think filelight could show a percentage of the storage analysed (GB analysed / Total GB) though this would only work for whole disk analysis because we only the size of the disk prior to the analysis and not of specific directories. Currently filelight only shows "G%" which AFAIK it's not a unit