gnome-disks should display a copyable disk UUID

[skierpage]

I needed to get the UUID of my swap partition (to compare and/or supply it to the `swapon` command). So I ran Ubuntu `disks`. When I click my swap partition, Disks shows some useful info about the partition (which I can copy, yay, but only field-by-field, boo!). But the panel doesn't show the device UUID. It should.

As a poor workaround, if I choose gears icon > Edit partition, the dialog has a Type drop-down with "Linux Swap (0657fblah-blah-blah)" in it. But I can't copy that, so I have to retype it, which is silly on a computer.

The advanced workaround is to root around in /dev/disk/by-ThisAndThat.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Jun 8 15:33:02 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-27 (42 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[skierpage (skierpage)]

To correct myself, the UUID in gears icon > Edit partition > Type dropdown "Linux Swap (0657fblah-blah-blah)" seems to be the UUID for the type of partition, not the partition found on disk. So there seems to be no way to determine disk UUID from gnome-disks, let alone copy it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Hans Deragon (deragon)]

Upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752121