Suggestion: size support (column, sorting)

[maximbaz]

What are your thoughts on adding support for file sizes? To have a column with file size, to be able to sort by them?

ncdu integration as you've shown in wiki is nice, and maybe it's enough, I was just thinking about it, and (a) for me personally, a size column would probably be more interesting than mime or index, and (b) some operations like system cleaning although possible to do in ncdu, might be more pleasant to do in xplr.

bonus points: directory sizes, something that even exa doesn't support 🙂

[sayanarijit]

I don't want to implement a full disk analyze mode now because there are dedicated tools that are much better at this and I'd like xplr to integrate with them at a deeper level.
Although, file size seems doable since it's just lying around in the metadata.

[sayanarijit]

Maybe in the future it'll be possible to run a disk analyzer as a service that will set extra properties to the nodes like meta.disk_usage via pipes, and it'll be possible to sort/filter using meta fields.