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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KOnCD
From:       Christoph Cullmann <crossfire () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-02-01 22:46:30
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On Friday 01 February 2002 22:35, Carsten Wolff wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 January 2002 17:48, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > > For me it doesn't and, AFAIK, the author has not replied to mails for
> > > several weeks already. (At least not to mine or those of another
> > > i18n-de team member.)
> >
> > I tried it some days ago, but it was unable to record a cd with it,
> > whereas KreateCD (an application I work at. The KDE 3.0 version is
> > heavily under development (-> unstable atm) and will be released short
> > after 3.0 final) has no problems, so recording a CD at least is possible
> > on my system, but KonCD fails.
>
> I use the debian-packageed version of KreateCD (for KDE2) and I like it
> very much. It has a very well UI and works fine. KonCD works here, too, but
> I would rather see KreateCD in kde-packages, because of it's better UI
> (including drag&drop from different folders to the project, wich is a big
> advantage over KonCD).
Just checked out kreateCD from sf.net and compiled ;) Really nice.
Can only agree, the UI of KreateCD is much more usable and it "has" an UI, not 
only several dialogs like KonCD. For the normal enduser KreateCD would be 
much more usable, because he can create CD's via drag'n'drop like it should 
be. In KonCD you need to fill out the include/exclude dir/files lists (k, via 
fileselector, but...) and that will not be easy to use for the normal user 
(at least not to users coming from windows where the have apps like WinOnCD, 
CreateCD, ....). Joseph is right, KreateCD for 3.0 seems to be pretty much in 
alpha/beta stage at the moment, but in my eyes it would be better to switch 
to a app with a usable GUI and some porting probs than try to redesign KonCD 
to be more "enduser" friendly, which would cause a complete redesign (at 
least if I am right with the opinion that the current ui isn't very usable).
Don't want to say KonCD is bad in burning cds, but in my opinion it is a too 
"technical" app for the normal people.

just my 2 cent
Christoph

>
> Carsten.
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