Re: new module proposal: brasero

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno mar, 04/11/2008 alle 15.21 +0100, Josselin Mouette ha scritto:
> Le lundi 03 novembre 2008 à 23:48 +0100, Luca Ferretti a écrit :

> > Examples of backends are nautilus-cd-burner and brasero :-) OK, serious.
> > >From UI point of view, backend is the the dialog showing you the
> > progress of burning process, a software between the frontend and
> > cd*tools.
> 
> Yes. There are two separate things here: a real burning backend (which
> currently is cdrtools/cdrkit and in the end should probably be libburn)
> and a base UI.

Of course, I wasn't speaking about "real" backends like cdr* or
libburnia.


> >       * IMHO currently brasero (as "backend") is better then n-c-b, at
> >         least 'cause brasero provides multisession and
> >         blanking/formatting
> 
> AFAIK n-c-b provides blanking. 

If so, there is no UI for this, in example a "Blank Disc" entry in
Nautilus context menu for inserted disc, isn't it?

> >       * About the "frontend" I think could be good put burn:// location
> >         and brasero side by side in the desktop, having a simple
> >         Nautilus add-in to quickly burn stuff as well as a full featured
> >         (but not bloated) application
> 
> What exactly can the brasero front-end do that n-c-b cannot? Shouldn’t
> it be something that we could add to the n-c-b burn dialog?

Josselin, I was speaking about "frontend", i.e. provide to the end user
both this[1] and this[2] UIs to collect data to burn.

[1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/autilus.png
[2] http://www.gnome.org/projects/brasero/images/data-project.png