Posted in KDE, Software.Tagged free software, kauth, kde, luks, partitionmanager, polkit.
What I'm still missing in KDE is a very simple right click menu to format SD-cards and USB-Sticks – like in Win-Explorer.
Well, I can't do it from KDE Partition Manager. But I thought some other developers didn't want to do it from Dolphin. But maybe things changed. You can always open feature request in bugzilla and see how discussion goes there.
Still a lot of work left till this is done… But at least first results are here. All the previous refactoring I was doing to make this possible was not as visible.
I'm a bit worried though that my KAuth helper might be unacceptable to OpenSUSE security team (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/7at1gp/root_free_kde_partition_manager/dpctgty/). But we'll see, maybe they won't complain… Running as root is definitely less secure.