Anyone use k3b or nautilus in xcfe4?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:01:44AM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> >I have just installed a DVD writer, I've got the DVD recognised and
> >I've installed the growisofs command line utilities for DVD writing
> >and that seems OK but I'm having no luck at all with either k3b or
> >nautilus-cd-burner.  Has anyone got a CD/DVD writer GUI going with
> >xfce?
> >
> >My experience so far is:-
> >
> >nautilus-cd-burner - I downloaded the software, unpacked it, ran
> >./confugure all OK.  But then what?  There isn't a Makefile so 'make'
> >doesn't do anything and none of the INSTALL or README files tells you
> >what to do.
> >
> >k3b - I got a slackware package for this and installed it with no
> >problems and also installed KDE from my slackware 9.1 CD.  The
> >requirements for the version of k3b that I have installed match the
> >KDE I've installed.  However on running the k3b configure utility I
> >get an error message about missing libraries and when I run k3b I get
> >lots of errors about 'no GUI running'.  I thought xfce could run KDE
> >applications.
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> You're comparing apples with pears here ... xfce can run any X 
> application, and as a matter of fact, it can even run non-X applications 
> (yes really).
> 
Er, yes, I know that.  But xfce is supposed to be able to run KDE and
Gnome applications by having suitable hooks for the KDE and Gnome
utilities I think.  That was one of its original features.


> Your question is better suited for k3b-users or #gnome even, it has 
> nothing to do with xfce.
> 
I think it has *some* relevance to xfce.  Other Gnome applications I
have compiled do work successfully in xfce.


> If you want to know how to compile stuff yourself then read the INSTALL 
> file that is packed with almost every source tarball. Be dangerous.
> 
If you read my posting I did exactly that!  I have compiled heaps of
stuff over the years for all sorts of operating systems.  The problem
is that neither k3b nor nautilus-cd-burner seem to want to work like
just about everything else I've built, I was just asking for some
hints/help relating to them under xfce.


> I use plenty of cd/dvd writing applications, most notably cdrecord 
> itself and xcdroast, k3b...
> 
Good for you, how did you get them to run under xfce, or didn't you?

-- 
Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)