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shred: Please add GUI interface

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6110: closed (shred: Please add GUI interface)
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:02:02 +0000

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with message-id <20100607230100.GB585 <at> dementia.proulx.com>
and subject line Re: bug#6110: shred suggestion
has caused the GNU bug report #6110,
regarding shred: Please add GUI interface
to be marked as done.

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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: 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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