Drop Xfburn in 14.04?
Alexander Bender
bender at bendertron.com
Tue Jan 21 04:03:21 UTC 2014
On 01/13/2014 01:24 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
> Instead of yanking a tool which seems to work well for some folks but
> not for others, why don't we focus on addressing Xfburn's inadequacies
> in the environments where users are observing failures. It would make
> sense for those users who are experiencing failures to file bug
> reports (if they have not done so already) and approach the developers
> directly.
>
> Personally, I have never had an issue with Xfburn but I use a portable
> USB drive which may be avoiding errors that only occur in an IDE or
> SATA optical drive environment.
>
> Richard
>
> On 01/12/2014 11:00 PM, Joan Advincula wrote:
>>
>> No issues at all. Please keep it since it's already working well and
>> fits right in the Xfce environment.
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2014 5:16 AM, "Dave S" <mclovinsblog at gmail.com
>> <mailto:mclovinsblog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> As I have stated, I haven't had a single issue with Xfburn, so I
>> also support keeping it in all future testing and subsequently
>> the final release of Xubuntu 14.04,
>> Dave Slaughter
>>
>> On Jan 12, 2014 3:39 PM, "Alexander Bender"
>> <bender at bendertron.com <mailto:bender at bendertron.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/12/2014 02:26 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>>> Since nobody seems to have major problems that are
>>> reproducible by others with Xfburn, let's continue work as
>>> normal; we will ship Xfburn.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Pasi
>>>
>>> On 12/01/14 22:15, Dave S wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I decided to give it an extra test,and decided to try using
>>>> Xfburn with my USB3 DVD-R burner ,and burned a 3.4 gig ISO,
>>>> a full movie, and a filled up disk of data from various
>>>> places, and various partitions on my system,and had no
>>>> issues what so ever. So I am on the side of the issue being
>>>> hardware related. Just my thoughts on this whole situation.
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 12, 2014 7:22 AM, "Sean Davis"
>>>> <smd.seandavis at gmail.com <mailto:smd.seandavis at gmail.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Xfburn is basically the only remaining utility that
>>>> works perfectly for burning CDs or DVD-Rs for me.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, January 10, 2014, Dave wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I moved over to Xfburn from Basero, when i started
>>>> having problems burning some ISO images.
>>>>
>>>> XfBurn has worked perfectly for me on both my
>>>> Xubuntu machines. (One with IDE Burner, the other
>>>> Sata)
>>>>
>>>> Using CD-R, DVD+R and DVD-R disks. Not tried any
>>>> re-writable disks, as they have been replaced by
>>>> USB sticks.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>> On 09 January 2014 at 14:56 Pasi Lallinaho
>>>>> <pasi at shimmerproject.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Do others have testing results on whether Xfburn
>>>>> works with various types of discs or not?
>>>>>
>>>>> Pasi
>>>>>
>>>>> On 09/01/14 15:26, Dave S wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I actually have no issues at all with burning
>>>>>> DVD-R or DVD+R or even +RW/-RW with Xfburn, I
>>>>>> actually install it into other distro's and
>>>>>> desktop environments, (MATE being the main DE)
>>>>>> due to the GTK2 compatibility that it provides
>>>>>> over other burners suc
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>> Xfburn currently only burns CD-R's right.
>>>>>> Burning DVD-R's / DVD+R's usually fails. This
>>>>>> has been so for a long time.
>>>>>> CD-R's seem to disappear from the stores and
>>>>>> DVD-R's / DVD+R's are often the only discs
>>>>>> you can buy in a store. So this bug in Xfburn
>>>>>> becomes more of a problem. Even the iso of
>>>>>> Xubuntu no longer fits on a CD....
>>>>>> So: perhaps it's a good idea to drop Xfburn
>>>>>> in Xubuntu 14.04?
>>>>>> Regards, Pjotr.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/
>>>>> Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/
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>>>
>>>
>> Xfburn has been one of the most reliable free burning
>> software I have ever used, certainly over Brasero, about on
>> par with K3b.
>>
>> I would also support shipping it with 14.04.
>>
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Hello all,
I just burned three DVD-Rs with no issues all the way up to the size
limit of the disk on a SATA DVD burner and played them back, and the md5
hashes matched. I would be totally willing to investigate this further
along with someone that can reproduce a failure for me.
Alexander Bender
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