CD burning with Nautilus, was: Why xcdroast and not gcombust?

[Julien Olivier]

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 08:53, Marco Ermini wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 09:41:18 +0200, Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > This is what we should do, and I think I have done my part of it ;-): My
> > wife (she is one of those prototype end users who find all the bugs)
> > told me that she wouldn't _expect_ a "burn this" button in the playlist
> > manager/music app/whatever. I.e. if she would want to burn her music she
> > would first go to the CD burning app (or Nautilus module, implementation
> > doesn't matter), because she doesn't use music apps very often (she
> > listens to CDs on the stereo if she wants music) and so doens't know of
> > a "burn this" button. So do the same and ask your spouses, friends,
> > household members, other _ordinary_ people.
> > 
> > Another thing I learned from my GUI lecture was that you don't need a
> > thousand answers, the 10 or 20 we might get here by asking personally
> > are just enough in our case.
> [...]
> 
> But desktop concepts are always changing. Notice that both iTunes and
> Windows Media Players now are offering a "burn this stuff" directly from
> the same user interface which plays the media. Maybe *now* ordinary users
> did not expect these, but "updated users" of both Windows and Macs have this
> option now, so I would expect Linux users will expect this too.
> 

Yes, and why wouldn't it be the case on GNOME too ? I mean, let's add
audio burning to Nautilus, to Coaster (or whatever will be GNOME's
_advanced_ CD burner app) and to Rhythmbox. It shouldn't be that hard to
share the burning itself using a CD burning library, is it ?

> 
> regards