Re: failure of gnome baker

[Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>]

Francesco Pietra wrote:
> In my updated debian i386 sqeeze/gnome and debian amd64 lenny/gnome i
> have no more workable cd-dvd burners. Gnome-baker reports burning (CD
> data disk) OK, however the CD is unreadable. In contrast, k3b works
> fine for both CD and DVD data disks. However, installation of k3b
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install k3b
>
> brought other problems in:
>
> --command "k3b" also started the  viewer VMD, which had to be closed
> twice in order that k3b could be used.
>
> --On restarting the computer, gnome could no more be called and a
> RedHat window was brought in instead.
>
> I liked gnome for years, and I use certain gnome-specific scientific
> applications, such as GChempain. However I notice now that KDE has a
> much more versatile burner (k3b), even if gnome baker could be used.
> Also the pdf viewer "okular" (better that Adobe for certain scientific
> uses) is part of KDE and alleviated from having to install Adobe. I
> believe that gnome developers should consider these observations.
> Lukily, okular can be used without problems even in gnome.

I use k3b in gnome under squeeze because it has features I need at 
times. You'll need to install a whack of kde depends along with it if 
you don't have something kde installed already but it works, at least 
for me. I have a few kde apps installed that I can't find gnome 
equivalents for and they work well.

I've often thought that gnome could use a better or more full featured 
burning app. I rarely burn cd's any more so brasero may be a solution to 
but I haven't needed to use it so I can't say from experience.