The Grumpy Penguin

This blog may have seemed dead, but I am still here. I've pushed some tiny patches removing more uses of Q3Support.

K4Dirstat got a mention that made it to Planet KDE, so it's probably time that I recap its current status.

• The functionality works.
• I18n may or may not work.
• Contributors have put it in the default Fedora repository and openSUSE Build Service repositories.
• I doubt I'll get to doing the hard part, necessary to bring the animations and percentage bars back.
  

Are any coders out there itching to create a model of a file hierarchy and use a QTreeView? Is this a state where it would be accepted into Extragear? Any volunteers to try out the i18n and/or create new translations?

 Is anyone still having the issue with large files not being accounted for correctly?

Some people have reported issues with files of more than 2 GB. I've tested k4dirstat reading large multi-gigabyte files in a few environments, and so far here are my results:

• Opensuse 64 bit ext4: works
• Gentoo 64 bit XFS: works
• Opensuse 11.3 32-bit ext4: works
  

If anyone who is having issues with large files could post their OS type and version and the filesystem type, so I can track down the problem, I'd appreciate it. If you aren't having the problem, it might be useful if you could post too.

Thanks,
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Josh

 I think I've got the translations from kdirstat working again. I haven't touched the translations, just the build system. If anyone wants to try them, the changes are in the i18n branch in the git repository.

git clone http://grumpypenguin.org/~josh/kdirstat.git
cd kdirstat
git checkout -t origin/i18n
cd po
./create-pot
mkdir ../build && cd ../build
cmake ..
make && sudo make install

The available languages from KDirStat are German, French, Hungarian, Italian, and Japanese.

KDirStat is one of the last KDE3 applications I use. It's a directory statistics tool which presents both a tree-based and graphical representation of file sizes. There are predefined tools to clean up unwanted files, as well as slots for up to 10 custom commands.

Being a KDE3 program, it doesn't even compile anymore on my Gentoo system, because of the KDE4 libraries present. I decided that now that Amarok has support for labels and KMyMoney is getting ready for a KDE4 release, it was time to get rid of the last KDE3 program on my system. I started porting it Friday night, and it's now largely functional.

The current port uses Qt4's Q3Support classes, and KDE4's KDE3 compatibility classes. There are a number of limitations, still:

• Because of limitations in Q3Support, the old percentage bars are gone for now.
• "Move to trash" simply moves files to the trash directory, which isn't how trash works anymore. Because the existing code executes programs, the best solution is to use trash-cli. Obviously that would require users to install it. Another option is to use KIO::trash(), which would involve more modifications to KDirStat.
• The Pacman animation is gone, at least for now.
• Internationalization is gone for now. It will be back.
• Help doesn't work.
  

The source is being tracked with git. You can get an up-to-date copy with the command

git clone http://grumpypenguin.org/~josh/kdirstat.git

To install, simply run:

cd kdirstat
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
sudo make install 

You don't have to install it to run it, but the menus won't work unless you do.