[Bug 32484] Re: selection should default to free space

[Curtis Gedak]

> Maybe the create menu option just needs to be enabled regardless
> of what you have selected.

This might be a good solution to this request.

The create "New" partition menu would always be available.

There would be three scenarios to handle:

A)  If the user had pre-selected unallocated space.
     In this case the usual dialog for creating a new partition would be displayed.

B)  If a user had pre-selected a formatted partition.
     In this case we have some options:
       i)  the user could be warned by a dialog to select unallocated space only (I prefer this option)
       ii) the user could be prompted with a dialog to format the existing partition and lose the data

C)  If the user had pre-selected neither unallocated space, nor a formatted partition. 
     In this case the user could be prompted with dialog to select unallocated space.

Does the above sound reasonable, or is there perhaps a better way to
address this?

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Title:
  selection should default to free space

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  New
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When gparted opens, the menu option to create a new partition is
  disabled.  This is because it is only active when free space is
  selected, and it is not selected by default.  The free space should be
  selected by default.

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