[enhancement] Better text for "British HMG IS5 (Baseline)...

[maddes]

Enhance text for "British HMG IS5 (Baseline) (1 pass)" to "... (1 pass w/ zeros)"

This erasure method is highly important for Virtual Machines, which normally optimze their virtual disks if data/sectors are all zero.
Although it is listed in the documentation most people will test out Eraser without reading all the docs, and may reject Eraser due to a false "missing feature".
Also it is hard to remember what the correct erasure method was, when you use it only once in a while.

Kind regards
Maddes

P.S:: Posted as a forum topic due to TRAC issues with sending mails.

[DavidHB]

This is a good point. Perhaps what would be really nice would be a tooltip for each method, with a summary description, as that could be a bit longer than the entry in the list.

David

[Joel]

I think Overwriter raised a similar point a few years ago, but concluded that it would not make sense as not all passes are so clear-cut (such as the first/last 16KB erasure).

[maddes]

My suggestion was to enhance the description for this method only.

About David's idea:
Tooltips for methods could be supported generally, but only used where it makes sense.
Maybe multi-line tooltips would help to explain the methods much better.

[Joel]

I prefer a more general approach and not just for this case. Perhaps David can suggest the longer descriptions for each of the erasure methods?

[DavidHB]

Perhaps David can suggest the longer descriptions for each of the erasure methods?

I'll have a go.

David