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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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>                 -- 
>>>>>                 Pasi Lallinaho (knome)                      » http://open.knome.fi/
>>>>>                 Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu       » http://shimmerproject.org/
>>>>>                 Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member  » http://xubuntu.org/
>>>>
>>>>                  
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>         -- 
>>>         Pasi Lallinaho (knome)                      » http://open.knome.fi/
>>>         Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu       » http://shimmerproject.org/
>>>         Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member  » http://xubuntu.org/
>>>
>>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         --   
>>         Alexander Bender
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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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