Bug 259679 - Partitionmanager's device selector is not newbie friendly.
Summary: Partitionmanager's device selector is not newbie friendly.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: partitionmanager
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0.3
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Volker Lanz
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Reported: 2010-12-13 04:28 UTC by dE
Modified: 2016-02-22 16:17 UTC (History)
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Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/kpmcore/b25d7c19de999f8bba22a9f1ba464f54f637dd79
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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