Comment 16 for bug 58205

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 09:03 +0000, mac_v wrote:
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> But i would still feel more comfortable if these options are better of
> placed in the Properties as a separate "Format" tab.

Having come from another system, I am sure that is what makes sense.
TBH, that was something I hated.

My opinion is that functionality should be there for users to get to
without digging terribly far. Context menus are great places for things
like that. But "Properties→Format" isn't really intuitive. Formatting
a drive isn't a property of it. The filesystem that it currently
contains is a property.

What *would* be an interesting thing, though, having to do with
properties as you mention it, would be to have a "Change..." button next
to the filesystem type in the properties dialog, so that you can change
the filesystem of media. (Certain filesystems would have to have the
Change... button deactivated, such as currently-mounted filesystems like
the root filesystem, or be able to play with the system boot-up process
and be able to do things like reboot, change the root filesystem to a
different one, and then start up normally.)

While that would be an interesting option, that would have to be a
different bug report, though.