Relasing DeviceKit-disks 005, gnome-disk-utility 0.4

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Fri Jun 19 17:32:44 PDT 2009


Hey,

Here are some new DeviceKit-disks and gnome-disk-utility releases

 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/DeviceKit-disks-005.tar.gz
 http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/gnome-disk-utility-0.4.tar.bz2

NEWS about these releases

 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/plain/NEWS?id=005
 http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-disk-utility/plain/NEWS?id=0.4

Highlights

 - Port to new PolicyKit API

 - Use libgudev instead of the DeviceKit daemon

 - DriveDetach() for safely removing drives / powering off USB drives
   http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/commit/?id=5b7350df8b63cf4178a2fe69ee740b5222130421
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/nautilus-drive-poweroff.png
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/nautilus-poweroff-2.png

 - Reworked formatting tool, see
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-nformat-1.png
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-nformat-2.png
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-nformat-3.png

 - Check/Repair for Linux Software RAID including reworked progress
   indicators
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/palimpsest-progress.png
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/palimpsest-spinner.png

 - Better floppy driving handling
   http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/dkd-gnome-floppy-welcome-to-the-1980s.png

 - Many other bugfixes and translations

Enjoy!

    David




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