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UDisks backend: improve the description of volume and storage devices

Ahmad Samir requested to merge work/ahmad/device-description into master

  • Nowadays SSD's are pretty common, using "Hard Drive" doesn't seem correct, "Hard Disk Drive" v.s. "Solid State Drive". Instead use: "External Drive" and "Internal Drive", which should work for both cases

  • Add the volume file path (/dev/sdXY) to the description, this is useful for volumes without labels; the same goes for a whole disk device, e.g. /dev/sdc, which can't have a label at all. One can easily differentiate between devices based on the device path, /dev/sda1, /dev/sdc2, /dev/sdd ...etc, which are always unique.

An obvious use-case is the Places panel in Dolphin or KFileWidget, if you have two or more partitions without labels, you can't tell which is which easily with just the size.

BUG: 410891 FIXED-IN: 5.84

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