Drivesetup: add "write image" to context menu

[nephele]

The context menu for the "whole disk" and "Disk" menu item should have a "Write image..." Dialog. This should ideally with a querry find files of type multipart iso, or raw disk image to write.

This would be a gui way to replace the inconvenient and cumbersome manual way of using cp or dd to write images to thumb drives.

[khallebal]

Good idea, but it doesn't have to be accessible only through DriveSetup, but then again i understand that something like that would be alot of work to implement in such a way that is accessible from any directory.

[nephele]

The raw device is only accesible when navigating to say /dev/disk/usb/1/0/ and then the file raw for example

I don't think users will visit this location in tracker and know to click the raw file to get this.

We could add a "Write file..." to the iso/diskimage type context menu later too, but first there needs to be a gui writer in any case. (and one that hopefully is smarter than dd or cp in regards to buffer and block size so transfers don't take forever... or maybe just ask the kernel to do that itself, dunno)

[khallebal]

Replying to nephele:

The raw device is only accesible when navigating to say /dev/disk/usb/1/0/ and then the file raw for example

I don't think users will visit this location in tracker and know to click the raw file to get this.

Maybe what i tried to say is not very clear, but a user doesn't need to navigate to the raw device, because the context menu will display a list of available devices all the user has to do is pick one from the list.

[nephele]

what context menu?

[khallebal]

A context menu that will result from when clicking on an .iso/.raw/.img image file.