Folder size/calculation

This is a two parter:
The problem has to do with obtaining the size of a folder's contents when viewing the contents of a folder. It would be nice to look down at the bottom of the folder window and see a display such as:
Desktop/Pod Movies - 1.52GB (1,129,771,439), 4 files
1. Is there a way within OSX 10.4.8 to display the size of the contents of a folder when the folder is opened without having to go to "get info" which is a kludge (and I know many would agree with me), or
2. Is there a third party application or utility addon that can do the same thing? I have a third party application called "WhatSize" and it reports exactly what I want and need but I have to run it as a separate application (another kludge). It is monotonous and time consuming to have to keep opening little applications to do simple things. I have a 23" Apple HD Display and my dashboard is crammed with little apps that offer one feature.
[Rant] I'm a bit disappointed that OSX doesn't come with all of these little useful things built right in ala (God forbid Windows or OS/2). With Windows you still have to jump a few hoops and Microsoft is known to actually steal such items from third party developers who can't fight back whereas with OS/2, IBM thought out the design first and then implemented it so when you open a folder the objects inside are sized and counted automatically for you at the bottom of the folder. (They may have done this because OS/2 had so few developers to begin with.)
I'm really hoping Leopard addresses many of these small OSX shortcomings because in the long run, gathered together, they are a very big part of a successful OS. I know Apple is bright enough to see these small shortcomings. And they may keep them out on purpose to ensure the livelihoods of little developers but - enough already! I don't want the best OSX, I want an AMAZING OSX! [Rant end]

Ahh now that does work but remains a kludge, i.e., you have to open the folder, select the four items (hold down shift select first file move to bottom of list and select last file to highlight all four at once) right mouse click, select "show inspector" and a separate window opens to reveal related information on the four files, including a full calculation of all four files.
How many hoops did I have to jump through to get that calculated size information? 5 clicks of a mouse
I want to jump through one hoop (perform one click): open the folder and see, in that bottom menu, the total amount of disk space all files in that folder are taking up.
Now you may be asking yourself, why is this so important? I want to know the ongoing size of a particular folder because I don't want that folder to exceed 4Gig. Yet I find myself having to jump through all kinds of hoops everytime I add a file to a folder to see how much space all the files are taking up in that folder.
Thanks for the time and effort.
John

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Actually, it may be a display error, anyway I would record this issue.
Although, I would give you some short description about this issue.
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Size: is the actual size of the file in bytes.
Size on disk: is the actual amount of space being take up on the disk.
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compressed, the value obtained is the compressed size of the specified file.
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http://www.powershellmagazine.com/2013/10/31/pstip-get-the-size-of-a-file-on-disk/
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa364930(v=vs.85).aspx
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