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Re: Gnome CD burning



On 23 Apr 2003 15:33:49 -0400,
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> 
> I've tried a number of the X11 cd burning packages that I've
> been able to track down, eventually generally settling into
> XCD-Roast because it usually worked, even if it does proclaim
> itself to be an alpha edition.  GCombust, Eclipt Roaster,
> GToaster, and CDR Toaster have all been tried, and some may
> have their strengths, but XCD-Roast seemed to be most reliable
> amongst this collection. That said, most of the time I was
> using the shell and mkisofs/cdrecord directly.

Has its must-be-SUID-root requirement changed?  I gave up on the
XCD-Roast because of this and the fact that it insisted on an
indecent 1024x768 screen resolution. (These two statements can be
both FUD WRT latest version.)  In contrast gcombust, the last
X-based burn frontend I used on a regular, happily ran as
non-root.

> Today, I installed a recently arrived package in unstable -
> nautilus-cd-burner. As yet, it only deals with data (as far as
> I can tell) so if you are burning CDs of your karaoke additions
> to popular music (we wouldn't do anything that might involve
> violating copyright with these programs - right?) this isn't
> the program - yet - that you want. However, if you are burning
> data CDs it is fine for basic core functions, and unlike most
> burning software, it puts the volume label dialog square in the
> user's face to help make it harder to overlook that (as I do
> nearly half of the time.)

From your description I assume it's yet another cdrtools
frontend.  Is this the same nautilus "plug-in" included with
Redhat 9.0?  The screenshots look cool in the Gnome 2
stripped-down kinda way.  In Debian's nautilus I have a menu
entry for "Go -> CD Creator" which bombs at "'burn:///' is not a
valid location. Please check the spelling and try again."

> It doesn't get into the details of potential settings (although
> it does detect the CD Writer on its own,) and apparently
> doesn't include support for bootable CDs from scratch, but by
> copying files to the burn:/// device or context-menu clicking
> in nautilus on an existing iso image, you can do a nice,
> relatively-painless cd burn. Great for "dumping off" files that
> are obsolete or underfoot, but not just "abandonable".

Now if only there's some way to do this reliably for DVD's using
DFSG-free tools, I might consider getting a DVD-burner.



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