Dolphin Tip - Investigate Disk Usage
29 Jan 2016Hi,
since quite some time, there is a new feature in dolphin which helps to investigate the disk usage of the current directory (or mount point etc.). The feature is a bit hidden, so I decided to write this post:
Left-click on the disk space bar (located on the right side of dolphin's status bar). The following menu opens, see screenshot:
The first two menu items open Filelight with different entry points (current folder or current mount point), the third one is KDiskFree. In a submenu, there are also other tools available.
One nice thing is that you can configure (via submenu More -> Configure...) which programs should be shown in the main menu and in which order. The others will be kept in the submenu. Even if a program is not installed you will find it in the submenu for you to discover.
Note, that in case Filelight is already installed, you can still (and could in the past) also reach it from the folders context menu -> "Open with" -> Filelight.
That's it. If you happen to come across another program that could be useful in the disk usage context and you think it could also be useful for others, feel free to file a bug report (severity "wishlist", topic "KMoreTools: new disk usage tool for dolphin: ..."). If accepted, this program would then appear in the submenu for other users to be discovered and you could configure it to appear in the main menu.