On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:07 -0500, Paul Betts wrote: > Hi, I'm working on a program written in Python + PyGTK that will > hopefully be included in GNOME once it's finished, but I'm not too handy > with Python and I'd like to work with some people who are better at it. > Thoughts, comments, complaints, etc are also welcome! > > Basically, the program addresses a small but pretty fundamental 'piece' > missing in desktop Linux; my friend asked me the other day, "How do I > format my USB disk in GNOME?", and I was like "....!" > > Basically, there is no user-friendly way to do this, the closest that > exists is GParted, and there isn't any access to it from Nautilus; this > is a pretty glaring omission that needs to be fixed post-haste. > > I've been working on a program that uses HAL to get the list of storage > volumes and show a simple dialog. An important feature in this tool is > that it displays user-friendly filesystem selection ie: > > (Drop-down) > * Compatible with Linux > * Compatible with Linux/Windows/Mac OS X > * ----- > * Specific Filesystem: > * * ext3 > * * reiserfs, etc... > > The code I've got so far can be checked out using Subversion, it > compiles currently but isn't finished yet and isn't my "best work", as > it were:
You could use gfloppy as a base, generalizing it from floppies to HAL-enumerated devices &c. -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez http://www.gnome.org/~mariano _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
