Show paths of files on Chart Summary view

[steven-esser]

Description

When looking at the Chart Summary view of any particular scan, I would like to see the path or list of paths for each value in the bar chart. This would make it easier to deduce the correct copyright/license statements for a package/component/etc at a high level.

Oftentimes, copyleft licenses and FSF copyrights show up in Makefiles or other irrelevant files, which clouds the data and forces me to drill down to the individual file level in order to determine the actual correct license/copyright.

AboutCode Manager Version:

• latest release

ScanCode Toolkit Version:

• latest develop

Additional Information

In the pic below, hovering over a copyright value just makes it show up in the hover text box. This is somewhat redundant; I would rather this be the full path so I can determine if this file(s) is something I should look at further.

[mjherzog]

The hover is intended to show you the full copyright notice when there is not enough room to show it on the chart. Would it work to be able to click on the row and go to a Table View screen with the corresponding rows?

[steven-esser]

That would be better, but Ideally I would just like a quick check without having to navigate around views.

Would it be possible to show the Full copyright statement (or license etc) when hovering over the left side text, but show the paths when hovering over the blue bar?

I do get your point though; that view is designed just to show stats etc of the various values. Its just hard (IMO) to get an accurate picture of the provenance in some cases as there is no context to the values without narrowing down your selection on the tree view.

The example above show that pretty well: all the files are flat in the tree, there is no src, test, lib dirs that I can narrow down. The bar chart then lists a bunch copyrights, many taken from Makefiles and other config files, making provenance analysis more involved.

[jdaguil]

I can see how this would be very helpful for flat directories, but I can't think of a great way to show the list of paths in the general case where the count for a particular bar could be in the 1000s. It might be worth brainstorming other types of charts or data visualizations that would be helpful in these scenarios.