Re: My CD Burning Theory

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 09:59 +0100, DmD (Spider) Ljungmark wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:21 +0100, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > And if nautilus-cd-burner would actually tell you the size of files in
> > > > the burn:// folder.   Having to bring up the "burn" dialog every time
> > > > just to get the size is annoying.
> > > 
> > > It would actually be up to nautilus to do that... Maybe another special-
> > > case for burn:/// in nautilus.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > I do not understand your problem.
> > Do you mean that there is no way of finding out the size of the files in
> > burn:// without bringing up the burn dialog?  For me, its just a matter
> > of selecting the files in burn:// and choosing properties.  That shows
> > the size of the files. As it would in every other nautilus-window.
> > Perhaps i misunderstood you?
> 
> This shows part of the size (not for fex. hidden items) but doesn't show
> the fit into the cd/dvd for one.
> 
> Neither is "totalling 4.7 Gb" a very good indicator of size when there
> is the matter of that last 10 Mb wether it fits onto a dvd or not.

We have some code to check that (size of the medium compared to size of
the data), it's just not hooked up in nautilus-cd-burner 2.8. As soon as
I have some time for n-c-b 2.10 work, I'll add that.

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