Bug 259679

Summary:	Partitionmanager's device selector is not newbie friendly.
Product:	[Applications] partitionmanager	Reporter:	dE <de.techno>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Volker Lanz <vl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	http://commits.kde.org/kpmcore/b25d7c19de999f8bba22a9f1ba464f54f637dd79	Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description dE 2010-12-13 04:28:20 UTC

Version:           1.0.3 (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

Currently it just shows the device node, which does confuse new Linux users who don't know what recedes in /dev.

The device selector should also show the type of port in which the block storage device has been attached, then the node will be shown in brackets. e.g for a flash drive, this will be shown - 

USB storage device (/dev/sdb)

In case it's firewire, esata, etc... it will show the respective - 

Firewire storage device

esata storage device

For internal hard drives (SATA, PATA, etc...), it should show it's capacity also (since that's the most prominent thing that users know about their hard drives) eg. - 

Internal SATA storage (500 GB)
Internal PATA storage (160 GB)
etc...

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Volker Lanz 2011-08-28 11:14:52 UTC

Thanks for the wishlist entry.

I agree ;-)

Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2016-02-22 16:17:03 UTC

Git commit b25d7c19de999f8bba22a9f1ba464f54f637dd79 by Andrius Štikonas.
Committed on 22/02/2016 at 16:14.
Pushed by stikonas into branch 'master'.

Make Partition Manager device selector more user friendly:
Show Device name – Capacity (Device node)

M  +4    -1    src/core/device.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kpmcore/b25d7c19de999f8bba22a9f1ba464f54f637dd79