Does burning CD-RWs in Nautilus work for anyone without tweaking?

[CB]

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 08:57 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:

> I have the same problem. My burner doesn't work. And I agree, IMHO, it
> should work straight out of the box.
> 
> I've found that floppy and CD usage in linux is difficult to explain
> to someone coming from windoze. They expect to use their floppy and cd
> without any magic. And so they should. I understand the reason behind
> linux/unix way. But it's not ideal for the home user and I haven't
> found a good solution yet. Maybe someone out there has?

It's hard as a non-developer (me) though to insist that 'someone' should
just get it all working easily. 

The conundrum to me seems to me that cdrecord and similar 'traditional'
unixy apps are relatively difficult to use but utterly transparent. The
gnome stuff is easy to use, but opaque. When something goes wrong, it's
hard to fix, and almost no-one seems to know how to diagnose problems
(eg. I posted an issue regarding the gnome-volume-manager to this and
other lists, and no-one has been able to help). What I'd like to see is
the ease of use of the gnome-style stuff, but with the transparency (for
troubleshooting etc) of the trad commandline things. But if it was that
easy, no doubt the developers would already be doing this.

Maybe we should persuade Apple to port iTunes to ubuntu. Now there's a
paradigm of a user-friendly app that 'just works'.