We really wanted to make the icon be updated on usb/sd drive, but it seems
there's no reliable way to tell, especially across platforms. it would even
be cool if we could do it in a subset of cases we could detect, but we've
found no way to get even partial information as of yet.

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This idea follows on #716 #716.
The idea is for the drive icon and text to be updated when a drive is
selected to keep the behavior patterns of the program the same for each
step of the 3 steps shown.

Since the disk image icon and text can be updated when an image is
selected, it follows that the disk drive icon and text should be updated in
a similar manner. Here is an example...

[image: etcher_009_mod]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/963645/18796042/145ee114-818d-11e6-9de4-f69b03d902ad.png

I don't know what kind of info is available from the OS about what type a
drive is connected (e.g. USB/SD card/etc.) but it would be slick if the
icon could be updated to show what type of drive was selected.

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otherwise, I do agree on both the suggestions and indeed we've discussed
similar changes in the past. This is a good nudge to revise that
conversation (pinging @taahirisaacs)

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Alexandros Marinos alexandros@resin.io
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We really wanted to make the icon be updated on usb/sd drive, but it seems
there's no reliable way to tell, especially across platforms. it would even
be cool if we could do it in a subset of cases we could detect, but we've
found no way to get even partial information as of yet.

Alexandros Marinos

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:57 AM, David Lechner notifications@github.com
wrote:

This idea follows on #716 #716.
The idea is for the drive icon and text to be updated when a drive is
selected to keep the behavior patterns of the program the same for each
step of the 3 steps shown.

Since the disk image icon and text can be updated when an image is
selected, it follows that the disk drive icon and text should be updated in
a similar manner. Here is an example...

[image: etcher_009_mod]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/963645/18796042/145ee114-818d-11e6-9de4-f69b03d902ad.png

I don't know what kind of info is available from the OS about what type a
drive is connected (e.g. USB/SD card/etc.) but it would be slick if the
icon could be updated to show what type of drive was selected.

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Yes, detecting this would be very platform-specific. It looks like you are already getting this info for Linux but just not saving it.

So, essentially, this issue is blocked by balena-io-modules/drivelist#64

nice! I'd be up for doing it in platforms that support it.

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So, essentially, this issue is blocked by balena-io-modules/drivelist#64
balena-io-modules/drivelist#64

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I definitely agree with this change. Maybe we can get the ball rolling for just Linux for now (seems to be the lowest hanging fruit)?

As Alex said earlier, this info seems to be very unreliable; even on desktop Ubuntu 16.04 my SD card-reader gets shown with a CompactFlash icon 😕