To be distributed as part of the GNOME 3.17.2 desktop

May 25, 2015 00:45 GMT  ·  By

The GNOME Project is hard at work these days preparing for the release of the second milestone of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, due for release later this year on September 23.

As such, several core components and applications have already started appearing on the FTP servers of the project, including Disks (also known as GNOME Disk Utility), which contains several significant improvements and new features.

According to the internal changelog, which you can find below, GNOME Disk Utility 3.17.2 fixes benchmarking of disks on 32-bit (x86) hardware architectures, fixes issues with the overly wide benchmark dialog, and simplifies translation of gsettings schemas.

Moreover, D-Bus is now activatable, the appearance of the volume grid has been refined, name examples are no longer displayed when creating logical partitions, the -h option is now mentioned in the program's manpage, and an AppData file has been added.

Last but not least, a new-style command-line option handling is now used in GNOME Disk Utility 3.17.2, which drops the deprecated encoding key from the .desktop file, fixes format string signedness warnings, and provides a symbolic app icon.

The application can now be compiled with the --disable-gsd-plugin option. Several translations have been updated as well in GNOME Disk Utility 3.17.2, which can be downloaded right now from Softpedia.

Disks 3.17.2 Changelog