This is a graphical "du" (disk usage) display.
What you see here is a 90% rewrite - GUI, engine, everything. The one thing it can do a whole lot better than the old version is stay on one file system - the single most most requested feature. Plus, it's way faster for large directory trees - scanning an entire Linux file system no longer takes 30+ minutes. Rather, it's about 2-3 minutes: The old version seemed to have problems with system buffer thrashing due to too many directories open for reading at one time - the new version uses an internal queue and keeps only one directory open.
For more details, see the KDirStat home page at
http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/
Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de>
2002-05-10