dolphin: cant change USB stick name, cant see what it is formatted in, no way to format it easily fully (no, using an extra partitionmanager sucks)

[star-buck]

@hsitter maybe you can add those two fucntions
@davidedmundson : even better if Valve would support those as valve ticket

[hsitter]

There is the rather big question of what the UI and UX should look like @Manueljlin @Pointedstick

[star-buck]

For ingo what format the usb is in, somewhere in info popup. To format, right click option Format. To change name, also right click option Rename.

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[star-buck]

Info, not ingo ;) On Mon, May 23, 2022, 13:01 Clemens Toennies ***@***.***> wrote:

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[Pointedstick]

I recall recommending that we do it inline, but IIRC the objection at the time was that approach being much more technically challenging that simply sending the user to Partition Manager. I do agree that it would be good to do that though. Better UX.

I don't think the UI for an inline thing would need to be very fancy. Simply right-clicking on the volume/disk would show menu items for "Rename" and "Erase and reformat". The "Rename" menu item would open a standard rename dialog, and under the hood KPMCore would add or change a label for the volume. The "Erase and reformat" item would have to do something a bit more complicated because the user needs to be able to specify what format it should be. So I can see the wisdom of sending the user to Partition Manager for that. But maybe we can have a super simple UI that just lets the user select a filesystem, with a button labeled, "Show advanced settings" that would open Partition Manager.

[star-buck]

Easy format is 1 partition, full size, data stick, either ntfs, fat, fat32 or exfat. For complicated stuff pm, yes.

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On Mon, May 23, 2022, 17:35 Nate Graham ***@***.***> wrote: I recall recommending that we do it inline, but IIRC the objection at the time was that approach being much more technically challenging that simply sending the user to Partition Manager. I do agree that it would be good to do that though. Better UX. I don't think the UI for an inline thing would need to be very fancy. Simply right-clicking on the volume/disk would show menu items for "Rename" and "Erase and reformat". The "rename item" could simply open a standard rename dialog and would add or change a label for it. The "Erase and reformat" item would have to do something a bit more complicated because the user needs to be able to specify what format it should be. So I can see the wisdom of sending the user to Partition Manager for that. But maybe we can have a super simple UI that just lets the user select a filesystem, with a button labeled, "Show advanced settings" that would open Partition Manager. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#253 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGNDBRQ5LFKX3M2JVPAL3LVLOQUBANCNFSM5WTCCWQA> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[davidedmundson]

In this very specific case, yes we can charge it to Valve under task 69: https://github.com/valve-project/tasks/issues/69.

Tomaz had started some work to make the partition manager invokable from dolphin. Any efforts to make it even more streamlined would be in line with that original goal.