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Ujjwol Registered Member Posts 136 Karma 1 OS	[Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:12 am There should be an format option for partitions in dolphin by default, new linux user get confused on how to format partitions... Ujjwol, proud user of KDE 4 and member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
Kryten2X4B Registered Member Posts 911 Karma 4 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:38 pm Ujjwol wrote:There should be an format option for partitions in dolphin by default, new linux user get confused on how to format partitions... Is that really something that should be implemented in Dolphin? I'm all for making things as easy as possible, but I'm not really sure Dolphin is the best place to add that. OpenSUSE 11.4, 64-bit with KDE 4.6.4 Proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:04 am Definitely should not be in Dolphin. It should definitely be in system settings, though. I think things integrated into Dolphin should only be tasks you do often, while things in system settings should be for more rare actions. I think formatting definitely falls into the latter category. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
Ujjwol Registered Member Posts 136 Karma 1 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:51 am I requested in dolphin because the user will select the partition and right click and click the format option. Ujjwol, proud user of KDE 4 and member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
TheBlackCat Registered Member Posts 2945 Karma 8 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:13 am Yes, my point is that it should not be that easy to do something that dangerous. Especially since it needs root privileges anyway. Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -NASA in 1965
Hans Administrator Posts 3304 Karma 24 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:32 am Besides, it's not easy to see how your hard drive is partitioned in Dolphin, is it? Unless you use some kind of KIO slave like media:/. But I agree with TheBlackCat, the format action doesn't belong in Dolphin. Problem solved? Please click on "Accept this answer" below the post with the best answer to mark your topic as solved. 10 things you might want to do in KDE \| Open menu with Super key \| Mouse shortcuts
lzfy Registered Member Posts 30 Karma 0	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 11:46 am Formatting of hdd's should be in systemsettings but formatting/renaming of usb drives should be implemented in Dolphin. lzfy, proud to be a member of KDE forums since 2008-Oct.
Fri13 Registered Member Posts 397 Karma 4 OS	RE: [Dolphin] Easy Format Tool Sat Apr 18, 2009 5:36 pm Ujjwol wrote:There should be an format option for partitions in dolphin by default, new linux user get confused on how to format partitions... Not for partitions. Linux ain't Windows where user need to understand partitions on diskdrives. There is need to allow this for masstorage devices like USB-sticks, but not for USB-harddrives. No one should have a need to format a partition from Dolphin. Linux is Unix-like operating system what does not use C: D: etc. User ain't even forced to have partitions on one root, but can have them on own directories like new disk on /home/username/Documents in example. There is no need to know one directory is a partition. And there is many users who use LVM partitions, so /home can be totally a multiple partitions/disks. So we can not allow Dolphin to format partitions. That is the system level tool, not user level.