[k3b] What happens after 2.0

Michał Małek michalm at jabster.pl
Wed Mar 24 06:38:32 UTC 2010


Markus wrote:
> Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 23:23:57 schrieb Michał Małek:
> > As for support for USB disk images: it's interesting idea, I haven't
> > thought about it. Although I suspect they don't use GUI to create distro
> > images, rather some dedicated script.
> 
> I wasn't talking about creating images, but to record existing images onto
> flash drives, because currently people have to 1st find out the device ID
> of the flash drive (/dev/sdb1 or whatever) and 2nd then use the "dd"
> command to write the image onto the flash drive.
> That's very, very bad (esp. the part about finding out the device ID) and
> even I as "semi-pro" have always trouble doing that.
> 
> I don't think that adding support for creating such disk images is
> necessary in the near future, but as I said: Now with KDE's official
> "Plasma Netbook Reference Platform", IMHO we need a neat GUI tool for
> recording disk images to flash drives when the SC 4.5 release arrives.
> 
> BTW, I opened a wishlist item about this:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231952

I see, that makes sense.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał



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