Re: My CD Burning Theory

[George Farris <farrisg shaw ca>]

On Sun, 2004-14-11 at 21:53 -0600, Brad Landis wrote:
> The current setup for burning cd's (nautilus burning data, rhythmbox
> burning audio) is ok, but I think it could be improved...
> 
> 
> I would think it would be better to have a central cd burning programs,
> and then have the other programs link to that program.  You could right-
> click a folder in nautilus and have an option to "Burn this folder to
> CD", and everything goes to the program to burn to a CD.  And have
> Rhythmbox have a menu option "Burn this playlist to CD", and it burns it
> as an audio cd.  Maybe even "Burn this playlist to CD as MP3's", or OGG,
> since that's the open source option, but that's not very useful since
> all the mp3 CD player devices don't support ogg yet.  It would probably
> keep the size of the gnome desktop smaller so you wouldn't have to have
> 50 programs burning cd's.  And it would also be less to debug, allowing
> the programmers to focus more on what the program needs to do.  That's
> just my personal opinion tho.
> 
> 
Nautilus also needs to be able to have a right click menu called "Copy
Disk" when you right click on the cdrom device in "Computer".  This
would just make so much sense and shouldn't be difficult to do.


> 
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George Farris
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