Xfburn Feedback

[David Mohr]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Pascal Gervais <pggervais at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>  --- Tom Weeds <rebel.mailinglists at gmail.com> a écrit
> :
>> Recently Jean-François said he needed some user
>> feedback for Xfburn.
>> (Before he would include it in a xfce release.)
>> I've burned several iso CD images with no problem.
>> I'll try burning some data files for backup purposes
>> in the near future.
>
> Hi
>
> I use also the latest svn under Debian Lenny and Sid,
> but only with some cd-rw at this time.
>
> What I have experienced with success:
> Creating images
> Burning images
> Burning compositions
> Fast and complete blanking
> With or without "Eject disk" at the end
> It show the pop-up if the disc is already blank
> The messages if the disk is already full
> The message and pop-up if the media isn't erasable
> The message and pop-up if the drive is empty
>
> What I find very weird:
> When I create a new composition and click on the Add
> button without selecting files or directories in the
> file browser, xfburn seems to automatically select and
> scan all my home directory. That may take considerable
> time and require the user to kill the Xfburn process.
> It would be nice to have a pop-up window showing the
> status and where we could cancel the process.

Thanks for the info. I was aware of that problem, and I agree that
it's very confusing. What we want to do is implement a adding progress
dialog. I'm not sure I'll get to that before the next release, but I
will think of a work-around in the meanwhile.

~David