Re: Cd Burning

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

Hey Sean,

> Hey all,
> I see it like this. Any of the other 
> projects that did your standard run on the mill cdburing like 
> adaptec/nero seem to have some sort of bad luck on not being 
> maintained. 

Starting a new one is not really insurance against lack of maintenance ;)

> And if I am wrong on this I do apologize, but must of or 
> all of those do not have direct gnome2 interaction with gnome2 devs. 
> IMHO I think that in order to intergreat cd burning into gnome in that 
> spects of RB and nautilus (to name a couple), we need a project that is 
> handed not only through outside gnome dev. but inside as well. What do 
> I mean by this? Gettting ppl on board who wrote some of the gnome2 apis 
> or better yet the major prohjects...ie you want natilus support you 
> join the cd project. Same goes for RB. 

I think you mostly need to ask around for what people want, not 
necessarily draw in other people already in Gnome.

> Thats reason number one for 
> starting the coaster project. The second it that a project like this 
> will have to be done at a strat from scratch level to make sure A. It 
> is right, and B. that it is gnome. Yes coaster is starting out as a 
> normal cd app, but that is needed as the base to the project. From 
> there we add a new cd api. 

My personal feeling here (and I could be wrong) is that this ought to be 
the other way around.  It's a good idea to design your API in function of 
the application you're trying to write, but I don't think it would do you 
any good to only extract the API after your app is finished.   In 
practice, abstracting and extracting your API from your app is very 
painful.  You're better off doing that from the start.  Ideally speaking, 
you should be able to run a raw cmd-line version of your gui app before 
your app is complete.

In the end, this effort will bring you more success in the Gnome desktop 
than writing just another burn app with gtk2 (Mind you, I'm not saying 
anything bad about coaster here - your app could very well end up being 
the best burner there is).  Burners just seem to be the new irc client.

> I was hoping that eventually coaster would 
> evolve into an api and instead of rylying on cdrecord to do the dirty 
> work, coaster would have that support and that a api libray would exist 
> for other apps to use cd burning funtions. IE your in totem downloaded 
> a divx want to put it on a vcd...click burn coaster converts divx to 
> vcd then burns to cd...all via api library.

Maybe too exotic a feature for totem, but yes, this sort of thing would be 
nice to get right ;)

Thomas

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