Post Syndicated from Lennart Poettering original https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/fring2.html

A while ago I
played around with Cairo and created a Python tool fring, similar to KDE’s Filelight, however not
interactive and very simple. Frédéric Back took my code and gave it a little
GUI love, and this is the result:

Frédéric added a nice interactive GTK GUI and a fully asynchronous directory
walker based on Gnome-VFS which runs in a background thread and thus doesn’t
block the UI. This makes the user interface snappier than Filelight’s ever was.
It’s a lot of fun to navigate your directories like this!

I would have liked to post a screencast of the new fring in action here, to show how
snappy it is. But unfortunately both Byzanz and Istanbul failed horribly on my 16bpp
display.

The current version of fring is not yet polished for a public
release. In the meantime, you can get the sources from the SVN:

svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/fring/trunk fring

Yes, I am aware that a future version of Baobab will offer a similar view of
the filesystem. However, it just was so much fun to hack on fring, and
due to the power of Python it was so easy and quick to develop this tool, that
we just couldn’t resist to do it.