On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/5/10 Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com>: >> 1. Handle ntfs drives easily. > > I had no issues with accessing the ntfs formatted drive. I could write > to it without entering any passwords. I run Debian, but we should find > out why it is not possible in Ubuntu. > >> 2. Format drives with a right click from file manager. > > I had to run mkfs.ntfs on the drive from command line. Now I think > this should really be an option from nautilus. > > The first step to get this fixed is to tell the developers the current > situation can be made easier. So I reported this bug to nautilus > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618272 > > We will see if they respond, but meanwhile how about fixing this > ourselves? Any volunteers to work on this project? > > We will need to add 'Format' to the menu. Currently it has 'Mount' or > 'Unmount', 'Eject' and 'Safely Remove'. When clicked on format, we > will have to offer an option to choose a desired file system, as a > first step we should offer file systems available in the system, as an > advanced use case we could offer to install new file systems. > > Then it should have a tick box for quick format, that should be > enabled by default. > > Once we get all the options we should run mkfs with given option with > given options. We should give visual progress of the process and > should find out if mkfs has any apis. Adding APIs to mkfs, if it is > not there already can be another project.
I have the format option on right click in my ubuntu 9.10 . It might have come from some other nautilus related package i installed.( So its already implemented. > I hope some of you are interested to fix this. > -- > പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് > <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! > <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? > (as seen on /.) > > -- > "Freedom is the only law". > "Freedom Unplugged" > http://www.ilug-tvm.org > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ilug-tvm" group. > To control your subscription visit > http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe > To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > > For details visit the google group page: > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en > -- Srihari K -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
