Re: Coaster-lib

[Sean Harshbarger <harshbarger 13 osu edu>]

Yeah there is yet another idea to toy with. To any effect the gui will
be clean and esy to use and will make a great asset to the gnome
desktop. 

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:46, John McCutchan wrote:
> Possibly adding a capplet for really fine tuning the cd recording
> settings would be a good idea instead of duplicating a lot of settings
> in each application having a central area to set things like "use buffer
> under run", "use this device by default" would make the gui cleaner.
> 
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Sean Harshbarger wrote:
> > 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
> > -- 
> > Sean Harshbarger <harshbarger 13 osu edu>
> > 
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Sean Harshbarger <harshbarger 13 osu edu>