If there is none, display a warning instead of the drop-down. Auto-detect all connected USB sticks and display them on the drop-down.If the SDC needs to download an image it should use something like zsync -i path-to-existing-iso url-new-iso.zsync to download only a bin-diff if there is another ISO already available → faster download + bandwidth gets saved.
Use locate, Zeitgeist, find or whatever, but find the ISOs for the user (remember: only the ISOs of Ubuntu versions that get updates and its official derivates).
Also already downloaded and supported ISOs should be auto-detected without any user interaction. The SDC should be able to download with a few clicks all current Ubuntu ISOs that get support updates as well as the ISOs of Ubuntu official derivates. The first barrier to remove is the need to find and download a Ubuntu ISO image. The aim should be to allow the creation of a startup USB without the need to leave the program (to download an ISO), with the lowest amount of user interaction (clicks), in the most polished way. It should be really easy to create a startup USB stick, therefore the SDC should automate as many tasks as possible and hide all non-essential or technical information from the user. The SDC is kind of a semi-public face of Ubuntu and an important tool to spread it, therefore it should be as straightforward and simple to use as possible – some people even don't have an optical drive anymore. The SDC in its current form has a suboptimal work flow, displays too much unimportant information to the user and requires too many steps to actually create a startup USB stick.
Why the Startup Disk Creator (SDC) schould be redesigned Startup Disk Creator redesign & renaming proposal
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