Anyone use k3b or nautilus in xcfe4?

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:54:51AM +0200, Auke Kok wrote:
> 
> burning a CD has nothing to do with the GUI, CD/DVD burning applications 
> use cdrecord, which is a non-X application that uses libs like cdrdao to 
> write to the DVD. A pretty/fancy wrapper like k3b does not do any 
> writing itself at all.
> 
Yes, I know.  That's why I installed (successfully, they work) the
growisofs utilities which sit on top of mkisofs and cdrtools.  I'm not
looking for DVD writing software, I have that working already, I'm
looking for a GUI front end to it.

> Xfce does not provide and need not provide any hooks at all to any 
> application except for maybe 'startup-notofication'. This has nothing to 
> do with writing data to a scsi(/emulated) hardware device node. Thats 
> all kernel land as well.
> 
See above, yes I know, k3b and the nautilus utilities are just GUI
'fronts' to existing utilities.

> 
> if you find ONE application that runs on a box with both gnome and xfce 
> installed (and working) and that DOES work under gnome but not under 
> xfce4 (except dockapps and that stuff that require the gnome-panel 
> working or something like that) you have found the impossible.
> 
Exactly!  That is why I am asking for guidance, I know it should work
under xfce but I can't make it so there is something wrong with my
installation or I've missed something out.  

> ANY application can run under xfce4. As long as it has the supporting 
> libraries installed and in place the application should not care at all 
> if it's running on a X-server with whatever desktop management set at 
> all (or none, so a plain empty X). Xfce does not restrict anything at all.
> 
As above, that's the information I'm asking for, what's missing that
isn't obvious and is probably/possibly to do with 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.
> > 
> >
> 
> here's how we compile nautilus-cd-burner under lunar-linux:
> 
>   ./configure  --prefix=/usr &&
>    make
> 
> it works for us. If you don't get a Makefile then something went wrong 
> with the configure. Most likely, you are missing a dependency. Try 
> reading the output of the ./configure command. Watning: nautilus 
> requires a tonload of dependencies. You're prolly better off starting 
> out with xcdroast, which basically only needs gtk+-2 and cdrtools/cdrecord.

As I said when I do that the make fails because there is no
Makefile for it to use, nothing happens except an error message.  The
./configure runs without any errors, I'll have a harder look though
because I know that ./configure sometimes throws out errors and then
continues so you miss them as they scroll up the screen.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

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