[Bug 35153] Drive properties aren't helpful

Lukas Sabota punkrockguy318 at comcast.net
Thu Mar 16 03:11:17 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35153

Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
When looking at the properties of a drive, some imformation about the drive should be displayed.  This is the current imformation displayed on Filesystem:
Type: desktop configuration file
While this is true, wouldn't filesystem type be more useful here?
Size:
Unknown
Couldn't the size of the filesystem be placed here?
Location
computer:///
Okay, what about mount point?
Mime Type
application/x-desktop
... not that helpful

Modified: unkonwn
Accessed: unknown

Instead of just being a standard desktop file, the preferences of drives should be special, and provided information about the drive (size, device name, mount point, file system type) and a button to open the disks manager.
It's too late for this for dapper, but should be a goal for dapper+1.  Does anyone else feel the same way about this? 
I would be willing to code, but python is my language of proficiency.  I don't think GNOME will allow python code upstream.




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