[Thunar-dev] Future request

[Jelle de Jong]

Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Evighetens Mørke wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I have one very, VERY, VERY important, and VERY needed Future Request,
>> and that is: posibility to view properties (size) of two and more
>> selected folders , and files+folders. Thunar leak this essential future !!
> 
> Hi Evighetes,
> 
> You can make a nice script for this and add this to thunar.
> 
> effect->
> 
> Select folders or files -> right button -> select script (get size)
> 
> script uses bash commands and get the total size
> 
> script calls the zenity tool and displays a dialog with the total size
> of the selected items and a oke button to close the dialog!
> 
> Can you do this. It is a solution :-D
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jelle

Some info for you:

#bash IRC channel they can help you.

and some info for zenity:

and some info about a thunar script:

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