Why xcdroast and not gcombust?
Erik Englund
erik.orebro at telia.com
Sun Aug 31 21:53:24 UTC 2003
Hi,
The only time I switched back to Windows when i was a Linux newbie (and
didn't realize there was one thousand other burning apps for Linux) was
when i burned CDs. I really don't think that the average Linux user find
xcdroast the most useful CD burning app, and that's what you are
supposed to do, pick the best for us =)
//Erik
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 23:10, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> 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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