Is it possible to list the number of items in each folder the way Caja and Nemo do?
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I like Spacefm because its lightweight both in terms of RAM and harddrive usage, but 2 things have kept me devoted to Nautilus 2.32 and its derivatives: multipane and listing the number of items in each folder. The former has become fairly common, but I've only seen the latter in the above mentioned file managers. So, is it possible to list the number of items in each folder the way Caja and Nemo do?
I don't know what Nautilus and Caja are doing these days but do you mean put the total number of files recursive in the size column? Anything is possible, but I suspect that NOT doing that is one the big things that makes lighter file browsers lighter and faster. I just took a properties on a subdirectory in a data filesystem and it took 4 seconds to come up with a file count. There are 126 sibling subdirectories in the same directory. So, as a first order approximation, if they were all similar, it would take about 8 minutes to load the view of that directory. Well, probably you'd come with a more efficient way to do it than however the properties dialog does, like maybe keeping and constantly revising a hidden metadata file in each directory. But still, you see how it might have a non-trivial effect on performance. Just thinking out loud here.