Comments on: KFormat and DeviceKit-disks

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:10:45 +0000

>Please don’t have “kformat” in the title. imho it shouldn’t behave like
>an application, but just as part of the OS.
>kformat shouldn’t be user visible anywhere. It should just always be
>referred to as Format Disk.

right, I will change the title.

By: John Tapsell

John Tapsell — Sat, 16 May 2009 02:57:47 +0000

Please don’t have “kformat” in the title. imho it shouldn’t behave like an application, but just as part of the OS.
kformat shouldn’t be user visible anywhere. It should just always be referred to as Format Disk.

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:35:34 +0000

>As all this is about Device-Kit, are there any plans for a Device-Kit Solid backend?
>AFAIK Fedora is going to switch to it in near future, so a backend for solid is
>necessary (or are HAL and Dev-Kit compatible so that no changes are required?)

Probably I will write a new solid backend.

By: thorGT

thorGT — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:12:09 +0000

Great work!
As all this is about Device-Kit, are there any plans for a Device-Kit Solid backend? AFAIK Fedora is going to switch to it in near future, so a backend for solid is necessary (or are HAL and Dev-Kit compatible so that no changes are required?)

By: foo

foo — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:35:40 +0000

Great work, horrible user interface (sorry).

This is one very important piece that has been sorely missing so far.

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:22:57 +0000

> Will this be integrated in Solid? Or is it a different thing?
Probably we’ll need a DeviceKit-disks solid backend soon.

By: Ask21

Ask21 — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:20:22 +0000

Nice work!

By: Uninstall

Uninstall — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:19:15 +0000

>Looks quite nice. But the device dropdown menu is too close to the window controls
>on the title bar (both visually and from a usability standpoint: clicking just some
>pixels above will hide or close the window).
I will do an usability review when it will be ready.

>Do you remember how we fantasized about the nice stuff we wanted to do with it a >long long time ago – I can’t believe this is starting to become true.
Yes

>i know that is only a first revision, but what about using the name of the divece like >in widows instaed of /dev/sdxy ?
sure, I will use something better.

>Will you be integrating some of QtParted later on when you do KDiskManager?
not really, I will use DeviceKit-disks partitioning support.

By: ix

ix — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:45:26 +0000

May I propose a new name? “DiskKit”. I thinkg this sounds better

By: D.J. Capelis

D.J. Capelis — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:58:27 +0000

Will you be integrating some of QtParted later on when you do KDiskManager?