Re: Results of burning with Nautilus -- ///burn and CD/DVD folder

[Benjamin Sher <delphi123 zebra net>]

Sri Ramkrishna wrote:

Benjamin,

Would you be so kind as to put in a bug for this?

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/

That way we can track it, and maybe have it as a task for gnome-love
folks to try their hands at.  It doesn't seem too hard to fix this
problem.

sri

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 06:48 -0400, Benjamin Sher wrote:
  

Patrick 9 wrote: 
    

Le samedi 15 avril 2006 �4:53 -0400, Benjamin Sher a �it :
  
      

Dear friends:

I succeeded burning my 3:45 minute (7.1 GB) DVD compressed (to 4.3 GB 
and copied and decrypted by K9copy. Two things:

1) While burning with Nautilus I was completely unable to do anything 
else. It took up all of my PCLINUXOS system and if I tried to use any 
other application, it would freeze Linux.

    
        

Nautilus-cd-burner takes maximum priority to be sure it will be able
to always fill the burner's buffer. There is some time when you can't do
anything else 
  
      

2) In the final result, two major VOB files were missing. This may have 
had more to do with K9Copy than with Nautilus. Just reporting the facts.

Thank you.

Benjamin
    
        

You're welcome

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Patrick



  
      

Dear friends:

You all know that I went through unnecessary agony trying to use this
simplest of CD Burners. The obvious solution would be to 

a) drop the cryptic burn:/// "protocol" that is enough to completely
confuse, baffle and totally enrage any new user.

b) instead of a small, rectangular folder for CD/DVD, make a BIG BOX
labelled CD/DVD files, place it right beneath the "burn:///" location
line (or whatever that is), put a line between this "burn" line and
the big box and put a downward green error indicating that that is
where all the movie files belong (and the big box is idea for all the
many movie files so the user will understand intuitively what's
involved). Then put the "Write to Disk" buttton (or replace it with
"Burn") right below the big box with a big arrow leading to it. 

c) Get rid of that absolutely confusing and unintuitive opening splash
screen: "No Files Selected". Closed. Open CD/DVD Creator. A truly
bizarre interface, the like of which I have rarely if ever seen. Why
tell the user to open the CD/DVD Creator. Have it open automatically
like any other intuitive program with all options and procedures
clearly spelled out in a step by step fashion. 

d) You have "Write to Disk" several times in several menus and in
several places and it disappears if you do something like try to add
your files. 

e) The whole interface should be completely overhauled and tested with
its target audience: that of a new user new to Linux who would like a
really simply CD/DVD Burner without having to check in to Bellevue to
have his sanity examined.

Hope you accept my suggestions in the spirit they were given. A simple
CD/DVD Burner should be SIMPLE. That's all there is to it. Not a
nightmare making an adult feel that he trying to learn how to use the
potty.

Thank you.

Benjamin


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Dear Sri and friends:

I have just tried to create a Bugzilla account nearly a dozen times. It keeps defeating me. It keeps telling me that my username and passoword don't match. I had a similar problem once with Mozilla when I tried to submit a Bugzilla report. I've been up all night and am exhausted and am in no mood to continue. Please feel free to submit my findings to Bugzilla under your name or under a fictitious name. The main thing is that they hear about it and correct it.


Thank you.

Benjamin