GParted 0.7.0 is less than ideal, so am looking for something else. Is there a credible alternative?
[update] The two issues I was having had nothing to do with GParted.
partitionmanager is a KDE/Qt gui using the same libs GParted uses. (afaik) It is almost feature-equivalent.
As of now, it lacks support for setting file system labels on some file systems, where GParted can set them just fine.(eg. fat32) Other than that, it works just like GParted.
Unless something changed recently GParted is de facto standard tool. The only viable alternative are partially CLI partially GUI tools like cfdisk.