Is Galileo going to include Partition Manager?

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With the shift from XFCE to KDE in live, it makes me wonder if partitionmanager will be shipping with it in lieu of gparted. It’d be a sensible live ISO inclusion, though to my recollection (not that anyone should be using this partition format) gnome-disks is the only mainstream solution at-present which enables users to create ExFAT partitions.

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KDE Partition Manager is capable of creating exFAT partitions.

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Yes. As of right now, partitionmanager is included in the package list.

Pudge

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Will gparted remain there as well, as an alternative?

I’ve sometimes had problems with partitionmanager that did not occur in gparted.

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gparted is not included in the liveISO.

I don’t have a definitive answer if gparted will be included with installed Desktop Environments that are GTK oriented.

Pudge

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If you prefer gparted, a simple sudo pacman -S gparted will install it on the liveISO, but it isn’t persistent and will be gone with the reboot / poweroff

My experience with gparted in Plasma is theming. Text can hard to read, etc.

Pudge

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Of course. Assuming internet connection. Not a problem for my use cases. Might be for some.

Sure.

When I said “problems”, earlier, I meant “the tool fails to partition / resize / …”, whereas gparted succeeds at the same operation without issue. I’ve never had the reverse occur.

For tools like that, reliability > theming, in my book.

Of course I have only a sample size of one (well, maybe something like four separate instances) so maybe I just got unlucky.

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the theming problem is probably due to not adhering fully to gtk/qt (whichever it uses)

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is it also capable of creating FAT32 partitions with boot-esp flags?
because that’s what I personally need for my EndeavourOS to be working at all (it’s a long story; I had an error that I have to fix by manually creating the EFI boot partition each time I reinstall the system, which I am planning to do again in the future)

this is why I really value GParted being on the live iso, btw

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Yes, of course.

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Probably.

In my install script I have the following:

# root apps shall use KDE's theme
sudo ln -si $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 /etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
sudo ln -si $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini /etc/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

It solved some theming problems I had in the past with timeshift; I assume gparted is in the same boat.