GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 153428
Include md5sum property
Last modified: 2008-02-03 20:20:45 UTC
(Not sure if this is the right component, please re-assign if it isn't) Since ISO images often have md5sums it would be very useful if the nautilus properties tab for an application/x-cd-image would also show the md5sum for that particular file. Since it takes some time to calculate, I imagine that at first the MD5sum field would say something like 'Calculating...' perhaps with an indefinite progress bar widget which would be replaced by the md5sum when the calculation has finished.
typo fix
What is the actual use case for this? I don't think most people are going to know or care what an MD5SUM is. If there is a compelling reason for this then we can reopen this bug.
My compelling reason is that people currently are forced to use the command line to see if the ISO they've downloaded has the correct checksum. It should be GNOME's goal to remove the need for the end user to ever having to open a terminal.
I think this would be useful to be able to check the md5sum/sha1sum after the burn has been verify (as in bug 125470)
Described functionality should be supported via some third-party plugin. Makes no sense to have this upstream. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 125470 ***