More "feature-rich" burning app for Ubuntu Studio-Hardy.

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Cory K. wrote:
>  * K3B (big MAYBE on this one as its not GTK but KDE apps fit in better
> all the time)

You already have to tolerate KDE (and provide the libs) to provide Rosegarden, 
so making one more KDE app part of the basic toolkit doesn't seem completely 
unreasonable.  I personally prefer K3B very strongly, and I have actually 
used GTK-based burning apps.  I used to use something whose name escapes me 
now for the longest time (it was actually my first burning app ever, since I 
had never owned a CD burner until after I had abandoned Windows.)  But then 
K3B came along, and I was an instant convert.

It might even be a little more tolerable in a GNOMEish environment than many 
other KDE apps, because it isn't really all that KDE-like at all.  The only 
problem with it might be the stupid way it depends on artsd to play sound 
previews and such.  (Or at least it used to.  I haven't tried to play sound 
previews, since I don't run artsd, and run KDE with busted system sounds.  I 
don't use any of the KDE media player apps either.)

I'm not sure how much of an issue that is for most people.  I could never get 
the stupid dmix thing to work with my ice1712, and since I re-inherited my 
old emu10k1, I just threw that in as hw:0 to solve all of these problems the 
easy way.  Not really a solution for the vast majority of people, 
unfortunately.  (This is also an issue with Sweep, which is still hands down 
my favorite wave editor, even though it only speaks OSS.)

> Also, what must be kept in mind is how it fits in with what we do. How
> does it help audio, video and graphic production more than whats
> included through Nautilus?

I can't really opine on this one.  I've never played with video, and I haven't 
looked at GNOME in years, except the one time I fired up the out of the box 
installation of Ubuntu Studio.  I know I'm missing out on the visual 
experience you're trying to provide, but I just can't use GNOME man.  I 
understand GNOME won a fair election by a landslide, but I'm deeply grateful 
that I have the option to avoid it.

I guess this also affects my recommendation of K3B, since I don't really 
appreciate the entire broader context in which the question is asked.  I use 
K3B for burning audio CDs, and it does that job exceedingly well, and 
reliably.
-- 
D. Michael McIntyre