Re: Cd Burning

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

> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > My take on this cd burning thing is that we need a cd/dvd burning *library*,
> > not necessarily an application straight away. With a cd/dvd burning library,
> > we can do funky things in Nautilus, Rhythmbox, wherever.
> 
> Hey, we need the application anyway ;)
> 
> My question about the library is what dependencies can it have, this is, 
> it needs to depend on libscg from cdrtools if it is going to have 
> advanced features like "detect if the CD is appendable". If the library 
> is only meant to be a wrapper for cdrecord and cdrdao, it can be 
> installed without problems and then fail with "you need cdrdao in order 
> to burn CDs".

The answer here is probably "use whatever allows you to program this thing 
in the most sensible way."  Code reuse is a good thing, enjoy it.  For a 
cd recording library, a dependency on a cd recording library is the right 
thing to do.  Just being a front-end for a cmd-line invocation of cdrecord 
is probably not such a good idea.  That's also where most cd recording 
apps fail to be good - they're a slap-on front-end for cdrecord.
 
> > For the RB needs, a wrapper will do. What I would like to see is the 
> "configure once", so that the config is shared between gnome apps and 
> even between desktops. Can KDE read the gconf keys?

There's shouldn't be much to configure about a cd writing app anyway.  KDE 
can read gconf keys if they run gconfd, but I wouldn't hope to convince 
lots of KDE users to run gconf ;)

Thomas

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