retitle 6110 shred: Please add GUI interface severity 6110 wishlist tags 6110 + wontfix thanks
J wrote: > I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this > program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have > you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus > like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or > maybe even entire partition? The coreutils isn't a GUI based set of utilities. It is also installed on every GNU system. Adding a dependency upon a large and complex graphical library would be in conflict with those needs. Therefore it isn't the right place to add one. But as you suggested Nautilus may be able to add this functionality to their interface. They could call 'shred' on the files you select. It is probably something that you could add for yourself as an extension. http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus You might want to suggest this to them. Bob
