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to: Randall Parker
from: Adam
date: 2006-12-29 20:58:00
subject: Re: Burner less unintuitive than X-CD-Roast?

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From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

try K3b.

XCdr  is much like goldenhawk or one of the old 90'es cd burning programs which
it is.

Why if you've chosen KDE do you seek out the non-KDE alternatives esp when K3B
is w/o any doubt one of if not the best disk burning progs on any platform?

Adam

Randall Parker wrote:
> Randall Parker wrote:
>> If I was trying to develop a CD burner app that was unintuitive I
>> wouldn't look at the popular Windows burner apps. No, they've had the
>> benefit of years of development and lots of user feedback. Instead I'd
>> pattern my burner app after X-CD-Roast.
>>
>> Really, the mind boggles.
>
> I mean,
>
> 1) I had to read a FAQ to figure out I couldn't just drill down to the
> dir where I wanted to find an iso and have that found there for just
> this one iso. No, I had to assign a dir as part of the regular list of
> dirs to look for isos and other track files and then I could choose it
> from a list when I got to a different screen.
>
> 2) The buttons down the left side are for choosing forms. They do not do
> those things immediately. Why use so much space for those buttons?
>
> 3) You can use the left column button "Write Tracks" to go
to that form.
> Then within it there is the "Layout tracks" tab that you use
first. Then
> you go to the "Write tracks" tab. Once there you see a few options
> "Write tracks", "Fixate CD-R/RW only" and
"Blank CD/DVD+-RW"
>
> Does Fixate do what? It makes you fixate on a CD?
>
> Does Blank make a CD blank? Or overwrite when CDs can be written more
> than once? Or what?

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