Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
This is a request for behavior similar to that found in Windows XP and Windows Vista regarding the treatment of removable devices that are read-write in nature. When such devices are put in (e.g., a CD-RW is placed into the drive, or a SD card is inserted into a built-in SD reader on the computer), they are automatically mounted and a new Nautilus window is presented to the user for the device. However, there are no options to erase/blank CD- RWs, or format removable USB or SD card storage devices. ATM, one must open a terminal and manually unmount the device(s) in question and commence blanking or formatting manually, using wodim or mkfs and friends. Optionally, there should be a related option for USB/SD card/etc. type devices to allow their partition tables to be easily changed. Ideally, all of these options should be present in context menus within Nautilus. It does not seem possible to have a Nautilus Script handle this in all situations, because it does not seem that it passes the directory value for items right-clicked under “Computer”. It should probably look at whatever is being right-clicked and, if it is in “Computer”, see if (a) it has media present, (b) if so, is it read-write, and (c) what type of media is it. Then it should present the relevant options (“Blank CD- RW”, “Blank DVD-RW”, “Format SD Card”, “Format USB drive”, etc.) and start a program to handle the option. In the case of blanking RW optical media, it should merely be a small status window that shows how far along the process is, and estimated time remaining, probably calling wodim to handle the blanking itself. http://www.askdavetaylor.com/0-blog-pics/windows-format-disk-options.png has a picture of what the Windows formatting window looks like; it might be useful in modeling an applet to do the same job under Ubuntu, with the added ability to find out what mkfs.* utilities are installed and present options for formatting filesystems with them. ** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Feature Request: Right-click to erase/format removable read-write media https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105261 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
