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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Burning as konq extension, once again [was: Re: KDE 3.1]
From:       ian reinhart geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-03-29 13:21:47
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Dcop services are also another option.

Seeing as you can only burn one CD at a time, at least one CD per burner, 
haveing a central service that manages this makes sense.  i wrote a simple 
service as a demo that takes in a list of files, makes an iso image and burns 
it.  It was not very pretty but it works very nice.

Advantages:
	You can access this service safely from any application via dcop
	Management is in a central area
	We dont have 1000 interfaces to the same x tools, we can add the features
		as plugins to the main dcop service
	No BIC issues to worry about 
	DCOP is cool ;)

Disadvantages:
	None I am narrow minded ;)

Actuallly the only real disadvantage is you have to write frontends to this 
service, so you will have two processes instead of one.

Just my 2c

- -ian reinhart geiser

On Friday 29 March 2002 08:04 am, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> Hi Martin
> Hi Martin!
>
> On Friday 29 March 2002 13:30, Martin Konold wrote:
> >Why not make cd burning a konqueror plugin?
> >
> >The konqueror interface is probably easier to learn to yet another file
> >manager metapher.
> >
> >Just look at how "natural" the kde audiocd:// protocoll feels.
>
> This is the most ideal solution. However this has to be implemented in a
> user-friendly way, i.e. the user shouldn't need to bother about complicated
> URL syntaxes for the slave and so on (IIRC coolo mentineoned that io slaves
> were never designed for such purposes, which is of course true). but
> together with a nice konq plugin to insert the right actions here and there
> (configuration, context sensitive stuff, etc), that would be the best
> solution of all (think KDEPrint).
>
> An approach would be to show the actual CD-Burner device as new entry in
> the sidebar and allow drag'n drop on it as well as offer RMB actions (add
> to CD, move to CD). In the background, that would feed a .iso file which is
> burned onto the CD with "fix files on disk" button. This would need a
> special handling of multisession and so on of course, but I think most of
> the recommended tools here already have a similar way to handle that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> </daniel>
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