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shred: Please add GUI interface

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From: J <visual_infinityuk <at> yahoo.co.uk>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: shred suggestion
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:41:27 +0000 (GMT)

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Dear Sir,

I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or maybe even entire partition?

Regards,
Jon



      

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: J <visual_infinityuk <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: 6110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6110: shred suggestion
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 16:53:18 -0600

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On 05/05/2010 10:41 AM, J wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 
> I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or maybe even entire partition?

It's highly likely that there already exist GUI wrappers for shred.
However, coreutils is all about command line interfaces, so this is the
wrong place to be implementing such a wrapper.  Since you mentioned
nautilus, maybe it would be better to forward your request to the
nautilus team.

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Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: J <visual_infinityuk <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: 6110 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6110: shred suggestion
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 18:37:40 -0600

retitle 6110 shred: Please add GUI interface
severity 6110 wishlist
tags 6110 + wontfix
thanks

J wrote:
> I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this
> program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have
> you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus
> like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or
> maybe even entire partition?

The coreutils isn't a GUI based set of utilities.  It is also
installed on every GNU system.  Adding a dependency upon a large and
complex graphical library would be in conflict with those needs.
Therefore it isn't the right place to add one.

But as you suggested Nautilus may be able to add this functionality to
their interface.  They could call 'shred' on the files you select.  It
is probably something that you could add for yourself as an extension.

  http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus

You might want to suggest this to them.

Bob

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: J <visual_infinityuk <at> yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: 6110-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6110: shred suggestion
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 17:01:00 -0600

There hasn't been any activity on this issue for a while now.  It
isn't a bug in coreutils nor will it be added as a feature.  So I am
going to close it from the bug tracking system with this message.
Feel free to respond and add more information to the ticket as needed.

Bob


Bob Proulx wrote:
> J wrote:
> > I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this
> > program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have
> > you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus
> > like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or
> > maybe even entire partition?
> 
> The coreutils isn't a GUI based set of utilities.  It is also
> installed on every GNU system.  Adding a dependency upon a large and
> complex graphical library would be in conflict with those needs.
> Therefore it isn't the right place to add one.
> 
> But as you suggested Nautilus may be able to add this functionality to
> their interface.  They could call 'shred' on the files you select.  It
> is probably something that you could add for yourself as an extension.
> 
>   http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus
> 
> You might want to suggest this to them.
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 

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