Re: Many bugs in latest version

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 02:04 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> I updated my system to ubuntu 9.10, and found out that brasero is almost
> unusable.
> 
> Here are problems I have:

Thank you very much, almost everything is fixed now!


> 
> 1 - brasero nautilus extension locks the cd door, even if it is empty
> This is very annoying....
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596241
Fixed, works fine now.


> 
> 
> 2 - every time I add a session to a dvd, brasero warns that it is about
> to erase the disk. The warning is bogus.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596245
Fixed

> 
> 
> 3 - brasero doesn't refresh its view of the world, after it writes a
> disk, thus I have to restart it.
> For example if I blank a disk, or want to write two disks...
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596247
This is indeed gvfs problem. I take a closer look at it.
Sometimes now brasero does eject the disk.
I think that devkit somehow sees the end of writing, and then mounts the
disk, thus preventing the eject. I take much more careful look at that.


> 
> 
> 4 - My DVD DL writer destroyed already many DL disks, reporting errors
> in very beginning.
> Since every disks costs money, it is really unpleasant that breasero
> doesn't include output of tools it uses in logs.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596243

I didn't indeed knew about -g --brasero-media-debug
and these options indeed fix this problem.
However if these are omitted, I think that stdout of tools isn't saved
anywhere, right?

If so I think it would be much better to save the stdout of tools, by
default, to lower costs of testing of write once disks.


> 
> 
> 
> Any many more minor problems I didn't yet report.
> 
> * For example sometimes it doesn't record disk label (writes CDROM
> instead), seems to be specific to woidim backend.
Can't reproduce anymore.
CD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-R all did get their labels correctly.


> 
> * Sometimes it closes a session, even if I told it not to do so.
> * Burn properties dialog seems to be seriously broken.
> sometimes toggling an option changes moves options around.
This is also fixed!

However one minor thing I noticed that if I add the session, options in
this dialog, are all unchecked. If I check them, they all work just
fine.

Also I noticed that writing a DVD+RW makes the 'Leave disk blank' always
selected and gray. Is this intended? (In fact as long as this option is
set, its just fine, probably there is no sense in closing a DVD+RW)
(growisofs is used in this case)



> 
> * If using simulation, word 'simulation' isn't removed from window title
> when actual burn is performed.
Fixed too!

> 
> * brasero can't blank DVD+RW disks (it should at least write zeros at
> beginning of the disk if the low level format isn't needed)
This isn't a trivial bug.

As I understand it, there is no way to return a DVD+RW in 'pristine'
state. It can be formatted again, but this doesn't make sense, and
sometimes I have seen a warnings on the web (I think dvd-rw-tools
mention that, that format can actually lower the durability of this
disk, and can fail after ~30 cycles)

However, this means that gnome would never display the CD/DVD creator
page. 
More that that, if I somehow blank the disk (using dvd+rw-format for
example, or burn /dev/zero over the disk), then gnome will cease to see
the disk altogether, since it is nether technically blank, nor has a
valid filesystem on it).

By the way, the above can happen with other media types, thus I think
they should introduce new disk state, something like 'damaged' maybe?

And of course, DVD+RW which have first say 1MB zeroed out should be
treated as blank.


Meanwhile, after all your bugfixes, brasero is very usable already.

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky