gnome-format SVN now has the ability to write a full partition table for devices, so it’s now usable for its major design goal – formatting USB pendrives. Encryption is still in the works, as well as pulling in the original floppy support (shouldn’t be too bad, since the code is already written, but I have to track down a machine with a floppy drive or deprecate the code; a third option would be to include gfloppy and gnome-format separately – no sense in wrecking an existing program that works).

So basically, encryption is the only major challenge left, as well as fixing HAL/GTK+ bugs, testing, and the volume icons – I’ve read something about GTK+ adding this in the development version, so perhaps this will be solved easily.