Thank you John for your interest in GParted.

Requesting the date and time in the window bar is something that could be requested of any application.  However, I do not think this type of information belongs in the window bar of applications.  Many GUI desktops already provide the date and time on the screen and in my opinion having multiple locations with the date and time clutters the screen unnecessarily.

Are you trying to capture the partition layout?

If so then I recommend capturing the exact partition layout using commands such as those in the following report:

Bug 680524 - support backup/restore of the harddisk partition table (MBR)

My use case as an administrator is to keep a periodic record (such as monthly) of the layout of volumes and the space utilization of filesystems on those volumes.  The visual diagrams that gparted displays are easily comprehended, and thus are more useful to me than text descriptions which contain numeric values.

Currently I take a screenshot of the gparted window, print to paper, and add the date in pen.  I would prefer if gparted had a File > Print command which produced a PostScript rendering of the window, suitable for the intersection of A4 and Letter pages.  It is simple to write a script which edits a .ps file so as to overprint the date, or to put the date as text in a header or footer.

Thank you for describing how you are using gparted.

Currently there are no plans to add a date/time display to GParted, or to add print functionality.

You might wish to investigate other tools which provide graphical display of file system usage.

Have you looked at any of the disk usage programs listed in the following article?

6 Great Apps to View Disk Usage in Linux
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/

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GParted screenshot with date added by GraphicsMagick

Hi John,

You can annotate text onto the image after you have taken the screen
shot of GParted.  It can be done with tools such as
GraphicsMagick (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) and
ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/).

E.g. Using GraphicsMagick to add the current date to an image:

  gm convert -box white -fill black -pointsize 20 -gravity NorthEast \
  -draw "text 0,20 '`date`'" GParted-screenshot.png new.png

Thanks,
Mike

Closing report as NOTABUG as there is no plan to add the date and time to the GParted application, and this is not a bug in GParted operation.