Hiya

I'm looking for a GUI for quickly formatting drives and/or erasing CD-RW/DVD-RW's.

It's a annoying typing 'mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1' every time I want to put a new distribution on my USB drive.

Ubuntu's Gnome desktop has a nice feature where you can simply right-click the USB icon and format it. Does KDE4 have something like that?

There is KDE Partition Manager which can create and delete partitons, and k3b can erase rewritable disks, but there isn't such a tool built into the file browser as far as I am aware, although there is a brainstorm idea about it already.

I believe it would be really nice to include some features to simply right click an icon to format a drive and burn an image to a disk.

I may be speaking for myself, but 90% of the time a full GUI to do one of the above will only slow me down. Had I been able to simply right-click an icon to erase the drive, and right click another icon to burn the image to the drive I'd be done in less than half the time it would have taken to go through all the options with the full-blown GUI.

Does anyone else feel this way?

As I said, there is already a brainstorm idea about the disk formatter. It was popular enough to be passed along as a bug report. There is also a bug report for the disk burner.

If you want to promote the ideas, please comment in the bug reports. Discussing it here will not accomplish anything, few developers read these forums. The proper channel is bugs.kde.org when a bug report already exists, and the brainstorm forum when it doesn't.