gnome-format: plans to include it?

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 03:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 00:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Any plans to include it by default in Fedora?
> >>
> >> http://live.gnome.org/gnome-format
> > 
> > We're working on a nautilus extension for much the same purpose. See
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DeviceKit
> > 
> > Still, if somebody wants to package gnome-format and bring it into
> > Fedora, thats fine. But for the purpose of tightly integrated formatting
> > support, the nautilus extension is probably going to deliver a better
> > experience. 
> 
> Then, there isn't much of a point duplicating it with gnome-format. Is 
> the developer aware of it? I am assuming, that we are getting this 
> nautilus extension before Fedora 11 release.

Forgot to mention that the nautilus extension is in rawhide now, package
nautilus-gdu. It is still a work in progress. Currently, it only shows
up in the context menu of mounted volumes, in the computer window. 

Feel free to give it a try, and give Tomas some feedback.

Matthias