Josh Saddler - Latest comments on SCALE, ebuilds, burning apps, and gtk

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metalgod [Visitor] — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:06:15 +0000

We will re-write some parts of the ncb library mostly low level stuff, the backends code (libburn, cdrtools) are indepedent since 0.6.x series. We are currently trying to removing some libgnomeui bits over here and over there.

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:55:54 +0000

@metalgod

Hey Luis!

Good to know. Seems that GVFS and GIO are going to be the way of the future for a lot of projects.

Will you be reusing code from n-c-b, or replacing it with something else, like libburnia or cdrtools?

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metalgod [Visitor] — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:36:50 +0000

Hi Josh

Well on brasero we will migrate to GIO/GVFS that will lower the dependencies a bit but as for n-c-b we totally depend on it now... we plan to remove this dependency soon but it won't be easy since we would end up rewriting the ncb library on brasero.

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:11:16 +0000

@pacho:

No, it doesn't. That's in part because of FAQ #25[1], and because it can't do dual layer writes, which makes all my regular data backups useless.

[1] http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/faq-a15.html

@Mario:

Hey there! I spent awhile on the libburn site. Your documentation is outstanding! Libburn looks like a good backend choice just for that alone.

That being said, No one's made any commits to Xfburn in months; years for the important bits. I tried it yesterday, but it simply doesn't work. Did absolutely nothing, so that's disappointing.

@lefou

Let me clarify what I meant. It's not that only brasero supports DVDs, but that the other gtk+ apps either have no support or only partial support. Brasero is the only one that can write to dual-layer media, for example.

@Chewi:

Yeah, the whole proDVD/cdrkit mess seemed to kill off several projects.

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Chewi [Visitor] — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:38:23 +0000

I once got a reply to an e-mail from the author of xcdroast, stating that he'd abandoned Linux for OSX because of the confusing kernel issues around 2.6.8. His site has been updated since but I don't think much work has been done. I think that, the awkward cdrecord-ProDVD key issue and the whole cdrecord/cdrkit debacle has put developers off.

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lefou [Visitor] — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:45:36 +0000

I'm burning my DVDs with K3B for years. Why do you think/believe that other apps than brasero don't support DVDs?

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Mario [Visitor] — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:33:04 +0000

Hello my friend,

I intend to do a Gnomebaker release next month. If you have any wishes, please feel free to throw them at me, and I'll see what I can do :). For XFCE, some of the folks I know are actively working on Xfburn, ofcourse based on libburnia libs backend (:P), so you're more then welcome to help with that. I'm available for any help you might need, and I believe our libs (libburnia) documentation is really good. Anyway, what mail do I use to contact you? :)

KR,
M.

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pacho [Visitor] — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:38:48 +0000

Doesn't xcdroast work for you?

I used it 4 months ago and worked fine (later, I switch to brasero ;-))