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Having just found the mailing list for kreatecd and then subscribing, I
thought I would make a few comments about usability issues that I have found.
My previous cd burning experience has been using Easy-CD Creator under
Windows, and since switching to linux some 18 months ago, my pile of files
needing archive to CD had been growing whilst I figures out how to burn some
CD. I came across kcreateCD and immediately started to release the backlog.
The comments I have below are made in the spirit of trying to help a good
programme get better. I would eventually like to help with coding, but at
the moment I am not making much progress on my own personal project to
improve another area so it will be a little time before I can be more
constructive than just giving some ideas.
Issues that I've had
a) When starting up kcreate scans the scsi bus looking for my cd-r. For some
reason it takes thirty seconds to complete (this is not just kreatecd - linux
does the same when booting - I presume its not finding something). This long
delay is annoying and I am not sure its necessary as you do it again just
before starting a burn
b) when starting up it tells me that it hasn't got paths for all the helper
programs it needs. If I select the option of going to the dialog box to find
them the options are all greyed out (actually they are not greyed out if you
happen to be logged in as root when you run kreatecd). I tried manually
filling in the filenames in ~/.kde/share/config/kreatecdrc in the [path]
section but this doesn't seem to effect the contents of the paths dialog box
c) Having burnt a cd and fixated the session, I want to add more files to the
disk. In easy-CD creator I could import the directory from a previous
session and then add the new files to it. There doesn't seem to be an option
to do this in kreatecd.
d) When running with the Data-CD screen, it would be much more convenient to
be able to select multiple lines (shift click to extend and fill in, ctrl
click to add the single new line to the current selection). This applies to
both panes.
e) When deleting an entry in the right hand pane, the selection point jumps
from the deleted entry to the top of the tree. This is extremely annoying if
trying to delete multiple entries (especially because the lack of d) ). It
would be better if it went to the line below that has just moved up.
f) There is no way to move things about in the hierarchy of the right hand
pane so if you happen to accidentally drop it into the wrong place you have
to delete and drop again.
I hope these comments are useful.
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Alan - al...@ch...
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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