> > 1) Is not really a reason for non-destructive image writing - I'd say > > there's a third reason - it's hard to revert the iso partition scheme, as > > I mentioned in an other mail to Christian in this thread. > > That's a reasonable point indeed, but I like your proposed solution: > simply have a 'restore this to being a regular data stick' button in > the luc interface. Seems like the best approach to me. I have the same opinion. Presenting the user with choice "create a $DISTRO installer" / "reset back to a regular USB drive" is simple to understand and users will remember to return back to the program if it is presented properly. > > Ad. modularity: It's pretty generic in my opinion - there is an occasional > > Fedora string here and there but overall these would be easy to remove. If > > you'd want to add your own distro/product/whatever, you'd just have to > > write your own provider of links to images, along with their descriptions > > and optionally some additional data like release date, version or links to > > screenshots. > > For Fedora, this is done by a PyQuery parser of the getfedora.org > > websites, that harvests all text that's stored there to present it in LUC > > too. > > You could possibly do that for other distros too if you'd want. Depends if > > folks from the other distros notice this and decide it's useful to them. I > > guess we could cooperate but until then, Fedora only. > > All distros which ship hybridized ISOs really *need* a tool like this; > I've actually poked through the docs for most distros and they all have > some kind of instructions for doing a dd-style write on Windows and OS > X, and they all kinda suck just like ours. So I think a shared tool > with good cross-OS support would be a huge win for all of us. Getting more distros on board would be a great win. With enough publicity, maybe people would finally forget about the broken unetbootin. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
