[Bug 55228] Re: Serpentine does not autoset disc capacity, no warning

[Tiago Cogumbreiro]

Option boxes are used to allow the user to do the task in hand, so it's
the correct widget to display the disc capacity.

Putting the disc capacity size on the preferences dialog rather then
side by side of a visual representation of the disc capacity doesn't
seem to be the most reasonable thing to do.

Serpentine probed for the disc size long, long time ago, maybe on
version 0.6. What happened is that d-bus bindings, at the time, were
unstable and, thus, could not be used. I can try to do it again, the
code base exists but needs to be ported.

Regarding the UI when this feature is enabled the option box changes to
insensitive state and shows the appropriate disc size.

So I beg to disagree from a "bad usability problem" and would rather
define it as a "feature request".

In respect to the problem you outlined I think that this might be
considered a bug, Serpentine could check the disc size and warn the user
accordingly, but not in a polled manner but only before the actual
writting (read: after converting tracks).

Keep in mind that these 2 features will be implemented as a plugin and
will only be available when the user has D-Bus (and the python bindings)
installed. This won't affect Ubuntu because it installs them by default.

-- 
Serpentine does not autoset disc capacity, no warning
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55228