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Idea #12027: Rename disk more easily

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #260: Auto-naming mountable drives.
Written by Joffrey47 the 9 Aug 08 at 09:09. Related project: Gnome. Status: New
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Just right-click on the media, and click on "Rename Disk".

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ampers wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 13:02
As one does in Windows.

I cannot believe the hoops one has to go through each time with Ubuntu to do this.

Ampers

Ssdg wrote on the 9 Aug 08 at 17:25
I saw this idea somewhere, did I?

paul92 wrote on the 13 Aug 08 at 14:04
yes, that's a good idea!

soliac wrote on the 13 Aug 08 at 23:26
Another missing feature in Ubuntu/Gnome. Surely this is useful!? I think it would be good to put this into the Properties window - just make the "Name: ..." field editable.

I don't know if anyone will be willing to do this...little things like this seem to be deemed unimportant :(, but all these little things add up!

migueleonm wrote on the 15 Aug 08 at 04:39
Great idea this thing could improve the FREEDOM, freedom to choose what i want. GNOME choose the name for the drives and not me.

frederyk wrote on the 18 Aug 08 at 22:32
Especially changing the name of SD-cards is so unconvenient.

ændrük wrote on the 30 Aug 08 at 21:54
I expected to be able to do this through the Properties dialog.

comicinker wrote on the 4 Sep 08 at 16:06
To rename disks or partitions in Gnome with the default file manager Nautilus first the gvfs framework (somehow related to GTK+) must support that.

However adding the features to gvfs is for unexperienced programers like me not an easy task, but I would like too. I think big portions of code can be taken from other projects.

maxim99 wrote on the 6 Sep 08 at 16:26
Indeed. Short, sweet, and to the point.

awalton wrote on the 11 Sep 08 at 14:35
We are currently discussing this feature for inclusion in GNOME 2.24, along with a way to change the icon on a volume through the use of a special volume .desktop file.

-A. Walton
(GVFS/Nautilus dev)

wleoncio wrote on the 22 Nov 08 at 00:26
Walton, that's great news! During the last year, I've "converted" four people to Ubuntu, and all of them had this same complaint. It was very embarrassing to say that was a feature Ubuntu didn't have, specially because it is considered such a trivial feature.

simon_w wrote on the 5 May 09 at 06:15
This is clearly a good idea. I would call it an obvious idea, except it clearly must be more complicated to implement than is immediately apparent, give that it's still not possible in Jaunty.

I would like to add that renaming gvfs mounts in Nautilus would be really handy too. I have a long list of mounted remote filesystems in my places panel in Nautilus. Since upgrading to Jaunty, I find they are all named "SFTP for simon on ..." and the ellipsis serves to make them indistinguishable. Being able rename them (or even just having them take the name I use for their bookmarks) would be a real boon.

Cheers!

cheesehead (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 5 Jun 09 at 21:02
Replaced ALL CAPS in title with lower case.


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