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Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• gsmartcontrol
• gsmartcontrol-root

Projektgeschichte

The project traces its public release history to 2008. Its NEWS file records 0.8.0rc1 on 2008-10-01 as the initial public release, and the official site lists copyright years beginning in 2008 for Alexander Shaduri and contributors.

Early releases focused on wrapping smartctl output in a desktop interface while adding platform support. By the 0.8.0 release-candidate cycle the project had FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, and QNX-related work; later 0.8 releases added Windows packaging, root-launch helpers, XDG configuration use, RAID-controller detection, and broader smartctl parsing.

The 1.0.0 release in 2017 ported the application to GTK+ 3. The 2.0.0 release in 2024 modernized the codebase with C++17/C++20, CMake, a JSON-based smartctl parser, NVMe support, and GPL-3-only licensing.

Adoptionsgeschichte

GSmartControl is adopted as a desktop companion to smartmontools. Its value is strongest on systems where users need SMART diagnostics but prefer a GUI for attributes, self-test logs, and drive summaries.

The official README and site emphasize support for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, and other BSD-style systems, which explains why package managers carry it as both a storage-health utility and a cross-platform GTK application.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run gsmartcontrol to scan drives, review identity data and SMART attributes, start self-tests, and open saved smartctl output as a read-only virtual device.

The package also includes gsmartcontrol-root, a helper used by desktop packaging to launch the GUI with the permissions needed to query storage hardware.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

GSmartControl is a neat package because it sits at the boundary between low-level disk tooling and desktop usability. It packages a GUI, permission helpers, smartctl integration, storage-controller quirks, and platform-specific installers around one established CLI dependency.

Its release notes are especially packaging-relevant: they call out GTK transitions, CMake migration, compiler requirements, smartmontools runtime requirements, XDG configuration migration, Windows installer work, and compatibility with older smartctl output.

Zeitleiste

• 2008: Initial public release 0.8.0rc1.
• 2009: Version 0.8.5 adopted XDG configuration on Unix and profile-based configuration on Windows.
• 2011: Version 0.8.6 expanded RAID and smartctl parsing support.
• 2017: Version 1.0.0 ported the interface to GTK+ 3.
• 2024: Version 2.0.0 introduced a JSON smartctl parser, NVMe support, CMake, and a modernized C++ codebase.
• 2025: Version 2.0.2 restored compatibility paths for older smartctl output and improved JSON parsing.

Related projects

• smartmontools and smartctl are the core underlying tools that GSmartControl presents through a GUI.
• GTK and gtkmm are the desktop toolkit layer for the application.
• CMake became the build system in the 2.0.0 series.

Quellen

• https://github.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol
• https://github.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol/releases
• https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ashaduri/gsmartcontrol/main/NEWS.txt