Regarding CD/DVD Burning

["Eugenia Loli-Queru" <eloli hotmail com>]

Myself and a few thousand others are in need for a /usable/ gtk-based CD/DVD 
burning application for a while now. Some Gnome-specific distros still have 
to install 30 MBs extra of KDE libs just so they can include K3B. In short: 
this is a kind of multi-function app that's sorely missed in the Gnome 
world. But...

..reading the comments on gnomedesktop the last few days, some people 
suggested that instead of having a single app doing all these things, it 
might make better sense to have several apps that each one can burn CD/DVDs 
according to their function. At the end of the day, writing down files to a 
medium is a job of a file manager. Example:

Nautilus: CD data, DVD data, ISOs
gThumb: Image catalogs (data), PhotoCDs
Rhythmbox: CD Audio burning (with the excellent SoundJuicer doing ripping)
Kino: VCD, SVCD, DVD (and maybe an option to load an external app that can 
do DVD menus, like iDVD, and then do the burning from there)

Thing is though, how would one do CD/DVD copying? Or how would you set up 
something to write in joliet or mac fs or hybrids? Or, how to create a new 
ISO, .DMG or .CDR disc image file (and burn them afterwards)? Or, how to 
burn multiple sessions to the same CD (including mixed Audio/Data CD's)? 
Apparently these functions are pretty common, but they don't really fit on 
any of the above apps.

So, what is your opinion? Should CD/DVD burning be scattered around 
different apps, or a single app should be created that does everything? And 
in any case, is the Gnome Project moving in the direction of either 
polishing and including the above applications to the core distribution, or 
create a /new/ C-based multifunction burning app?

I am sorry to say that Coaster is moving too slow and it's dependant on 
gtkmm while Optimystic is also dependant on libburn that's also moving 
slowly. In any case, I find Gnome to truly lack such a needed app these 
days, even the cheapest PCs/laptops sold these days can burn CDs. The 
Nautilus-cd-burner is a /great/ addition, but it is too little in 2004.

Rgds,
Eugenia

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