README
1What's this?
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4Josef Weidendorfer
5Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de
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7FSView is a tool for showing disc utilization in a graphical form, much
8like the UNIX command 'du'. The visualisation type choosen is a treemap.
9Treemaps allow for showing metrics of objects in nested structures, like
10sizes of files and directories on your hard disc, where the size of
11directories is defined to be the sum of the size of its children.
12Each object is represented by a rectangle which area is proportional to
13its metric. The metric must have the property that the sum of the
14children's metric of some object is equal or smaller than the objects
15metric. This holds true for the file/directory sizes in the use case of
16FSView.
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18It's provided both as a Konqueror KPart plugin for the mime type
19inode/directory, and a standalone executable.
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21This was meant as a small test application and usage tutorial for
22the TreeMap widget developed within KCachegrind. As it's quite cool
23and small, it is now provided as a Konqueror addon in KDE.
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25For a full featured graphical 'du', see KDirStat. It's quite similar
26to FSView, but allows for lot of cleanup actions.
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28Happy space hunting,
29Josef
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