https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508482
Bug ID: 508482
Summary: Have a simple mode and an advanced mode, so users can
easily format usb drives without needing the full UI
Classification: Applications
Product: partitionmanager
Version First unspecified
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Currently, KDE doesn't have any official way to easily format usb sticks or usb
devices without needing to open the whole extremely complex UI of the partition
manager.
While the current partition manager is very useful, and we should never give up
on it, it could have a simple UI by default, with a button somewhere to switch
to the "advanced UI" that would show what it is now. This simpler UI would be
much easier for new users when they right click on "Format device" in Dolphin,
and they expect a simple app like the one that appears in windows when you want
to format something. This simple mode UI would not have partition editting, and
would instead always format the whole drive into a single partition with the
chosen filesystem and label. The filesystem list should also be minified into
only a few most used ones, like extfat, fat32, ext4 and btrfs. All others would
still be available in the advanced UI mode.
Many distros avoid pre installing the KDE partition manager because they find
it too difficult for casual users. They instead pre install gnome-disk-utility,
which in my opinion is easier to use but at the same time does not fit KDE at
all since it is a GTK app and is also not very easy to use, still too complex
when all a user wants is to format a damn usb stick.
Having these two UI modes in partition manager would immensely help newer users
without removing access to any functionality from advanced users. The simple
mode should be the default when opening this app via the dolphin "right click
on the device" shortcut. This dolphin shortcut should maybe be changed to two
shortcuts, one called "Format device" that would open simple mode on that
device, and other called "Edit or change partitions" that would open the
advanced UI, similar to what it already does right now.
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