Why xcdroast and not gcombust?

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Steve Bergman wrote:

>I was just wondering why xcdroast gets included as the standard
>cd writer and not gcombust.

Why not $ONE_OF_A_THOUSAND other CD burner applications?  
Seriously, we can't ship every single application ever written in
every application category.  We can chip one or two apps for most 
important categories, but anything beyond that is distribution 
bloat, and should be in a separate repository such as fedora or 
another alternative repository, perhaps tied to the RHLP somehow.

By all means, file an RFE to have gcombust added to the 
distribution, that's the normal way things get added.  There's no 
guarantee it will get added automatically of course, but at least 
it can be considered when we're investigating new packages next 
time around.

>I always end up frustrated with xcdroast and gcombust is quite
>friendly.

The xcdroast UI is not perfect by any means, but I find it quite 
functional personally.  I've been using it since it was a TCL/TK 
script.

>Also, it's obvious how to write an existing iso image with
>gcombust and I don't see that xcdroast can even do it.

Well you're wrong there.  99% of what I use xcdroast for is doing 
just that.


>Plus gcombust fits in nicely with Bluecurve and is at least a
>GTK app, whereas xcdroast is, well, whatever it is.  I there a
>licensing issue or something?

Did you file a request in bugzilla?  If not, file it against the 
"distribution" component.  If you know the email addresses of any 
of the maintainers in the distribution of existing CD burning 
packages, you might want to carbon copy them as well.  We 
investigate user suggested packages submitted to bugzilla every 
release.  Some of them get accepted, some end up replacing an 
existing package in the distro, and some get rejected for one 
reason or another.  It's best to have it in bugzilla however, so 
it can be tracked.


>Then again, eventually, I suppose, nautilus will do it all.

Nautilus already can burn CDs.

Hope this helps.


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OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat