Brasero

[ForeverLinuxUser]

Is there any chance of getting the CD/DVD burner for Gnome added to the repos? It's called Brasero.

[Andreas]

Is there any chance of getting the CD/DVD burner for Gnome added to the repos? It's called Brasero.

Hello ForeverLinuxUser,

then you should do this 

Greetings
Andreas

[atolboo]

........the CD/DVD burner for Gnome .........Brasero.

Why ? when there is K3b.

[ForeverLinuxUser]

Thanks for the help Andreas and atolboo.

atolboo k3b can't erase the DVD-RW disks I have. It's not a problem with Pardus though it's a problem with k3b in every distro. Brasero on the other hand in every distro never has a problem erasing DVD-RW's.

The Problem with k3b is it can't really erase DVD-RW's it can only format them. I discovered though that xfburn for XFce can also erase DVD-RW's as well as Brasero but I still wouldn't mind having Brasero in Pardus Gnome.

[atolboo]

atolboo k3b can't erase the DVD-RW disks

I only have DVD+RW and the answer of K3b can de found in the picture below.
And I can simply overwrite this DVD+RW. No need to erase before.
So Brasero is not needed to handle this type of disk.
Erasing is only necessary with CD(RW).

[ForeverLinuxUser]

Then I'll have to use xfburn to replace Brasero. I don't want to chuck my DVD-RW's for DVD+RW's when my DVD-RW's still have a lot of life in them.

[atolboo]

And what happens when you use the Format button or Tools > Format/erase rewritable disk... in K3b?

[ForeverLinuxUser]

k3b tries to format the DVD-RW because it can't really erase a DVD-RW and the formatting ends with an error message but Brasero and xfburn can erase a DVD-RW. You're right, k3b can just overwrite a DVD+RW but not a DVD-RW.

[atolboo]

My advice is to report this at  http://k3b.plainblack.com/support
Sebastian Trueg will be very helpful in solving this problem.
I have had that very good experience with Sebastian some ~2 years ago.

[ForeverLinuxUser]

atolboo thanks for the link. I’ll talk to Sebastian Trueg about the problem. I bought a spindle of DVD+RW’s and k3b see’s them as CD-RW’s. I used k3b in Ubuntu to check them to see if the DVD’s were bad and k3b in Ubuntu see’s them as DVD+RW’s.

My computer is 9 years old now and maybe that’s part of the problem. Also, I did have Pardus check the CD before I installed Pardus 2009.1 to make sure I had a good burn and the CD checked out alright. Also, Abiword is doing strange things I’ve never seen it do before in other distros but I’m not going to post anything about that. As far as I’m concerned Pardus is much better then all the other distros I’ve tried and even with the problems I’ve had I still believe in Pardus completely.

[atolboo]

I used k3b in Ubuntu to check them to see if the DVD’s were bad and k3b in Ubuntu see’s them as DVD+RW’s.

This is strange and if this is true I expect the problem to be with Pardus and I would make a bug report at http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/
And mention that k3b in Ubuntu doesn't have this problem.
I think they will be very interested in this problem.

[ForeverLinuxUser]

Ok, I can report is as a bug. It's funny though I'm having problems with Pardus 2009.1 because I didn't have problems with PCLOS 2009 but I had a lot of problems with PCLOS 2009.1. Computers are very strange things sometimes.

[ForeverLinuxUser]

I did an update with the package manager a few days ago and now k3b sees the DVD+RW's as DVD+RW's. I don't remember everything in the update but one of them was a kernel update.

I think since Pardus 2010 won't be finished until 2011 I might install Pardus 2009 and see if I have the same problems with 2009.


UPDATE: I was just looking at the bug reports and it looks like people are having the same problems with 2009 as I've had with 2009.1 so I guess I'll just leave 2009.1 installed.