Hello!
Daniele Forsi has written on Wednesday, 21 November, at 17:46:
>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
It is question to program used, not to pcmanfm...
>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
Unfortunately the "Format" is not subject for context menu for the
disk because unmounted USB stick will be not in any folder except for
computer:/// perhaps but I still have no idea what to do with that the
computer:/// folder so it is "just for fun" yet.
>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)
Well, that might be good if we call Properties for item in the same
computer:/// folder. It is not available in other places. And also there
is no Tools page in the Properties as well. It is easy to make it though
since we already have plugins for the Properties window. But I think it
is a bit complicated way - user should:
1) open computer:/// folder
2) find required disk there and right-click it
3) open Tools tab
4) click Format
and also user should know all of that somehow. Well, you said that too.
I prefer KISS principle so therefore:
1) find required disk in sidebar and right-click it
2) click Format
and it's why I implemented it that way in libfm now, it will be shortly
released as 1.2.0-beta0. Out of all applications I found only one of them
that is working, it is a part of GDU. To use it libfm.conf should contain
a statement:
format_cmd=/usr/lib/gnome-disk-utility/gdu-format-tool -d
It works simple though the utility still offers FAT for DVD disk. :D
Cheers!
Andriy.
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