[parted-devel] Proposal: Rewrite of Parted UI

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

I would like to discuss a proposal for Parted 2.0. I think we should
rewrite the Parted UI application.

Current code has a lot of problems and should be refactored but while
I was looking at it and talking to David on IRC we thought that could
be better to rewrite it.

The idea is:

 - start a parted-ng directory on master branch and keep it while it
   miss features against current parted ui,

 - once it's done replace the parted with the parted-ng version.

My personal idea about the design of it would be:

 - modular;

 - plugin based;

 - completely new code;

Doing it, we'll discover which parts of code will be used a lot and
then those would be merge on the library itself. Without this I think
will be difficult to identify the right parts of code that should be
merge and which shouldn't.

Please, comment on it.

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