Ubuntu had a thing for a while where they would send you a CD if you asked for it. Friend of mine from school gave me one.

I really like App-images. For the most part, they just work, download, run, done. And sometimes you want the flexibility to install something the distro’s pacakage manager doesn’t give you (or doesn’t have the latest version of). It’s a little extra work to put the app in system menus, etc though.

Package manger still preferred. Having the system deal with updates and dependencies is nice.

AUR is still good, but I’d take the App Image. Sometimes these work for me, sometimes they don’t. Still have to manually update them, AFAIK.

There’s a more direct version of that, I guess from KDE, called KdirStat.

I hadn’t heard of the one in the op. But if I had to guess, it looks like it’s a different take on the same idea.

I don’t have any better tips for getting involved, but I just want to say thanks! OSS clearly needs help from skilled designers all over the place. Any time someone like you steps up, it’s a good thing. n_n