Re: Coaster-lib

[Sean Harshbarger <harshbarger 13 osu edu>]

Yeah I know what you mean. That is the plan. Remember the gui isnt even
done at all. most of the windows are empty widgets right now. The thing
that was sugested by another was to maybe use gconf to help fine tune
the burner...since the lib that being written for it is to be shared to
other apps then it makes sence to control those details in gconf.
Another option to add was a command line. So lets say I dont make a
bootable option. you can goto the command input type in your string hit
go and it pops up with the status and is burning what you typed. These
are all ideas and need to be look at on a later date. Once I get to fine
tuning the gui I will expect a lot of input from this list.

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 19:34, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 01:22, iain wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 00:03, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> > > YEs Iain I know...Iain has done a lot of nit picking on the gui for me
> > > and it has to to this. When you click "Burn" a new dialog asking you if
> > > you would like to proceed pops up and has the yes/no and even a make cd
> > > bootable check box. I think the bootable otions will be changes in the
> > > prefs...however my time with the gui is small as I am focasing on the
> > > core cd burning lib itself. Keep in touch if any ideas or thoughts come
> > > to mind. Please do join #coaster on irc.gnome.org and use that as a base
> > > for disscussions with me. Thanks.
> > 
> > For clarification, I was comenting on Hadess' simple programs can't have
> > lots of features view.
> 
> No, I was saying that most (CD burning) programs have an awful lot of
> crap prefs because the developers can't be bothered making a choice, or
> writing proper detection code that would "do the right thing".
> 
> The best example is the CD-Writer selection.
> * What it should be:
> a drop-down menu with the names of the CD-Burners/CD-Drives, in clear
> English
> * What it is:
> http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/sshot1.html <- I don't care about the
> scanner on there, neither do I about the disk
> http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/shot4.png <- "Worst UI ever"
> http://gnometoaster.rulez.org/gtprefs.jpg <- bit better, but still far
> too much information
> 
> I hope you get my point. I don't want to dumb down/cut down on useful
> features, I want the software to be easy to use.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> /Bastien Nocera
> http://hadess.net
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Sean Harshbarger <harshbarger 13 osu edu>