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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KPartEd 0.1 available
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-07-20 16:37:42
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Scott Manson wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:44 am, Richard Moore wrote:
> > I've just uploaded the first version of my partition editor KPartEd to my
> > website. It is ALPHA, but as this version is read-only it should be fairly
> > safe. More info, download link and pictures are on the web page.
> >
> May I possibly suggest you use another name?
> KPartEd sounds too much like a KPart Editor; not the intended use.
> I don't really want to start a flame war but KPart is an integral *part*
> of KDE and any program that sounds like it has to do with KPart(s) is
> bound to cause some confusion.

Yeah, that's a decent point. I'll change the name to kpartition
for the next version.

Rich.

> 
> Of course I'm still confused about the kwrited vs kwrite it would *seem* that
> these 2 should be related but they are not. ;)
> 
> > http://www.ipso-facto.demon.co.uk/kparted/kparted.html
> >
> > Rich.
> >
> > What is KPartEd?
> >
> > KPartEd is a GUI disk partitioning utility for KDE and Qt/Embedded. The
> > partition management is handled using libparted with KPartEd providing an
> > easy to use front end. The partition types currently supported are: ext2,
> > FAT (including VFAT and FAT32), linux swap, HFS, NTFS and ReiserFS. See the
> > parted documentation for details of the level of support for the different
> > file systems.
> >
> > Status
> >
> >  Currently KPartEd can only view partition tables, but I'll be adding the
> > editing features soon. All the images below show the current working code
> > running with Qt/X11. I have not yet tested with Qt/E but the app is pure-Qt
> > so it should work fine.
> 
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