Re: new module proposal: brasero

[Luis Medinas <lmedinas gnome org>]

On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 00:33 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 23:55 +0000, Luis Medinas wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 23:07 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 19:27 +0100, Philippe Rouquier wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > We'd be interested in having brasero integrated into the GNOME
> > > > desktop.
> > > 
> > > Having something like Brasero directly in the desktop would completely
> > > change the current usage pattern for burning, and copying discs.
> > > 
> > > Either brasero should be trimmed so as to make it clear that
> > > nautilus-cd-burner is still the way to do "easy" CDs, or it should take
> > > over nautilus-cd-burner completely whilst offering the same
> > > functionality and integration.
> > > 
> > > So, which way will you be taking brasero?
> > > 
> > The idea is to replace completely N-C-B
> 
> Did you talk to the nautilus-cd-burner devels about it? I guess not...
> 
No and it's something we should discuss because brasero inclusion would
make N-C-B totally obsolete imho.

> >  it offers the same features and
> > integration (besides the hardcoded link CD/DVD Creator on
> > gnome-panel[1-2]),
> 
> That's means it doesn't use the same features. It doesn't integrate with
> the burn:/// usage pattern.
> 
Well that depends of what gnome-panel developers want to do. There are a
couple of options to fix this as discussed on those bugs.
 
> >  the same easy way to burn files and plus lot's of
> > features that could be expected from a application like this.
> > Currently besides nautilus, brasero is also the default burning
> > application for Banshee and Exaile. Maybe Rhythmbox, Totem and lots of
> > other apps could adopt it as well.
> 
> Totem doesn't burn anything yet (though integration to get it to burn
> video-dvds or video-cds could be useful), and Rhythmbox use
> nautilus-cd-burner's libraries, not its interface (except for the simple
> "copy cd" functionality).
> 
Yes to make Rhythmbox use Brasero currently is to parse the playlists
via cmd line like Banshee and Exaile. A Totem plugin for burning video
stuff would be an interesting feature.

> I'd like to see some documentation (a Wiki page would be just fine), on
> what you want the usage pattern for CD burning to be (I'd be happy to
> write the current n-c-b usage pattern, along with how we want to behave
> in the near future[1]), but I wouldn't want Brasero to be accepted in
> the desktop until the integration and the usage pattern reach a better
> level.
I think the current integration depends on other desktop modules not
Brasero. We just need to discuss with the depending modules how should
we improve the whole burning situation. We would be happy to start
writing a draft.

> Cheers
> 
> [1]: I'll take the executive way and fix:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119991#c25
> once the dust has settled on 2.24.
> 

Thanks
Luis