Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   But they don't. Why not? I have no idea.

> Did you ask them?

  Yeah, like they are going to answer me.

> And you can do that too. Click "open command window here"

  Do they have that in Vista? There's an extension for XP (doesn't come by
default, naturally), but it only makes it just slightly less inconvenient.

> >   It's extremely inconvenient and slow. I want a full list of a directory
> > with file sizes in bytes. That's all.

> 09/24/2009  18:39           231,936 XpsRasterService.dll
> 09/24/2009  19:00         3,068,416 xpsservices.dll
> 01/20/2008  19:48           942,592 XPSSHHDR.dll
> 01/20/2008  19:49         2,935,808 xpssvcs.dll
> 12/31/2006  21:00           625,152 xvidcore.dll
> 12/31/2006  21:00           120,320 xvidvfw.dll
> 09/18/2006  14:39             2,650 xwizard.dtd
> 01/20/2008  19:50           353,280 xwizards.dll
> 11/02/2006  04:19            94,208 xwreg.dll
> 01/20/2008  19:49           111,104 xwtpw32.dll
> 11/08/2008  17:38    <DIR>          zh-CHS
> 11/08/2008  17:30    <DIR>          zh-CHT
> 02/24/2010  16:09    <DIR>          zh-CN
> 12/10/2009  20:05    <DIR>          zh-HK
> 02/24/2010  16:09    <DIR>          zh-TW
> 08/29/2007  17:06            61,952 ZIMF.DLL
> 04/11/2009  00:11           387,072 zipfldr.dll
> 08/29/2007  17:06           127,488 ZSPOOL.DLL
> 08/29/2007  17:06            52,224 ZTAG.DLL
>              2344 File(s)  1,122,038,817 bytes
>                98 Dir(s)  57,167,736,832 bytes free

  I wish Windows Explorer listed it like that. But it doesn't.

> And I'm explaining why, under Windows, that question is ambiguous, by 
> providing an analogy that shows "how big is it" doesn't always have a 
> trivial answer.

  You yourself gave an unambiguous answer in the above listing.

  And Windows Explorer already shows the proper file size. The problem is
that it's rounded.

> >   So what? I'm not interested in how much disk space the file is taking.

> But most other people are. Hence the default UI.

  Windows Explorer doesn't show the disk space the file is taking. It shows
the size of the file (rounded).

  It's MacOS X Finder which shows the disk space rather than the file size.
I have hard time believing Mac users are interested in seeing how much disk
space a file takes instead of seeing the file size. (I bet most of them don't
even know the difference and would be none the wiser if it was changed.)

  On the contrary, it's irritating because it's very confusing. I'm not
really interested in how much disk space the files are taking. I don't do
anything with that info. (The only info which may be interesting to me is
seeing how much free space there is left, not how much disk space every
individual file is taking. That's just useless information.)

> >   There are tons of way more useless features in Windows than this. Features
> > which almost nobody uses. They didn't have resource problems for those.

> And you have good statistics for what features get used most on Windows? 
> Really? Where can *I* see those?  Or did you work for that department in 
> Microsoft or something else proprietary?

  How many regular Windows users even *know* that there's a program called
'dxdiag' or another called 'regedit', much less have ever launched them?
*Those*, if any, are hacker tools, not regular user tools. Yet they are
like a million times more complicated than adding a simple option to
Windows Explorer, and they come by default with Windows.

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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