nautilus-cd-burner in multissession

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 21:06:20 Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
>> Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> as I am a recent converter from KDE, I found it nice to have an interface 
> for 
>>> cdrecord integratred with the filemanager. But I can't seem to find any 
> way 
>>> to configure it.
>>>
>>> It seems to only burn CDs in single-session, but if it's intent is to be 
> easy 
>>> for newcomers, I guess it should default to multi-session. Anyway, I 
> googled 
>>> a bit and couldn't find a way to change this.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how to burn multi-session CDs in nautilus-cd-burner?
>>>
>>> regards
>>> FF
>>>
>> I think you'll find that the built-in cd writing for nautilus won't 
>> stretch that far. If you need burning software with a few more config 
>> options then I recommend you look at gnomebaker:
>> sudo aptitude install gnomebaker
>>
>> If you want a software with millions of config options and is really pro 
>> then check out K3b, it is KDE based, but runs really sweet under gnome.
>>
>> Hope that helps you some.
>>
>> Gabe.
>>
>> PS> you can change some config options for nautilus cd writing if you 
>> press alt+F2 and then run the command "gconf-editor" without the quotes. 
>> Do a search there for nautilus.
> 
> Stretch *that* far? Is it any far at all?
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but *any* program in linux that claims to burn CDs is 
> actually a frontend to cdrecord. 
> 
> If this is right, it should be as simple as including a proper parameter in 
> nautilus. I would even put it into the source and recompile, if I found a 
> command-like variable in it, but maybe I didn't search too well in the source 
> files (I am using Edgy's version).
> 
> I not only know k3b, but in fact love it. I would love more nautilus-cd-burner 
> if it would let me do the simples thing as drag & drop files without having 
> to open any kind of special interface beforehand, and still be able to repeat 
> the process with other files, in another ocasion. Similar to what is done 
> in /that/ another OS. One gotta agree that this was a nice idea. I stress my 
> belief that it must not be any difficult to implement, by anyone who has 
> taken the time to read the code that interfaces cdrecord. 
> 
> Actually, I  initially suspected this was a FAQ, but I am starting to think 
> otherwise.
> 
> regards
> FF
> 

It's something that I've been struggling with myself. I like to stick 
with the apps that are provided. From what I gather it is the design 
philosophy of gnome to make everything ultra-simple, and adding an 
option for multi-session would confuse people (because gnome devel 
assume people are monkeys). Well I don't know for sure, just the feeling 
that I get. All that said though, I'd still choose gnome over KDE any day.