2012/11/21 Andrej N. Gritsenko:

> after deletion of 8GB files no space was freed. So files were not hidden
> but some FAT corruption seemed to be so reformatting was required.

in this use case I don't think that the user should even see the word
FAT or EXT or whatever and the program should try to use the same file
system and label if possible

instead of a fixed "Format" item in the context menu, expanding the
use "Open with..." menu item that is already present for disks, would
allow more flexibility, so that some users could configure it to run
gparted (or run fsck or fdisk for other use cases) while others would
use simpler programs

I think that it's better to keep actions in the context menu, a
"Format" button could be added in a "Tools" page in the Properties,
which would allow to add a minimal user interface in the property
window itself (eg. to change the label or to show a progress bar), but
I don't think it would be easy to find it for inesperienced users and
would make disks different from files (for which the properties pages
doesn't allow to open them, unless we add "Play" for music, "Print"
for documents, and so on)

-- 
Daniele Forsi

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