[Kreatecd-user] New to list

[Alan C. <al...@ch...>]

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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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