Suggestions on packages to add to Ubuntu "main"

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 11:20:34AM -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 08:45 -0700, Nathan Howell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-10 at 06:27 -0700, Bill Stoye wrote:
> > > Nautilus does a good and easy job of burning Music and Data CDs
> > > including .iso files very simply; however I've yet to burn a music CD
> > > that plays on my home or vehicle player. 
> > > 
> > > If someone knows where I'm going astray with this, please tell me the
> > > error of my ways.
> > 
> > Nautilus doesn't burn audio CDs at all. If you're just dragging audio
> > files to the burn window, you're creating a data CD.
> 
> Oh! I'm surprised it plays at all then.
> 
> So what works? I can't get eroaster nor gcombust to work; they both look
> simple but I can't use them. I don't care to install all the KDE stuff
> to have K3b which worked well for me in the past.

On a Debian system I can no longer run K3b outside kde.  While
previously I could use kde-related programs while running XFCE I can
no longer.  I just wonder whether one would be able to run K3b in a
gnome-environment like that of Ubuntu's default installation.

Regards
Johann
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