GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 160266
No CD blanking option for CD-RWs
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:24:05 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/3916 "seems that there's no option to blank a CD from the CD burning dialog, even though the User's Guide (accessible via Help) claims there should be. What's the discrepancy about, and is there actually a way to blank a CD currently?"
CDs are blanked automatically, and the User Guide hasn't been updated about that fact.
Yea, "CDs are blanked automatically", so people are very "happy" when they loss all the information from their rewritable CD without any warning... Maybe at first we should solve bug #152379 (at least warning dialog should appear if user tries to write new information to CDRW disk) and after the warning dialog is added only then update User Guide?
This section needs to be updated. Right now it assumes browse mode, but spatial mode is default. (There is no "Go" menu in spatial mode, you use "Places" menu) I don't see any reference to blanking CDs which is what this bug is about however.
In 2.12, I got a warning: "Erase information on this disc? This CD-RW appears to have information already recorded on it." Closing this bug as obsolete. (I'm taking care of updating the section for spatial, but that's not to do with this bug report.)
Subject of this bug is "No CD blanking option for CD-RWs" In GNOME still there are no ability to blank rewritable CD/DVD disc, so, I think, this bug can't be solved and resolution shouldn't set to OBSOLUTE, because this bus still exists. There are other bugs about warning message before erasing, for example bug #152379, and they are solved, but this bug isn't, at least until in GNOME are "No CD blanking option for CD-RWs"
OK, then reassigning to Nautilus, this isn't to do with the User Guide.
Hello Mantas, what's the use case for DVD/CD blanking? IMO, blanking should (and can) be transparent to the user because it's necessary only when writing a new set of files on the disc. Furthermore, coaster (http://files.dersoldat.org/coding/coaster/) already has this option.
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(In reply to comment #7) > Hello Mantas, > what's the use case for DVD/CD blanking? IMO, blanking should (and can) be > transparent to the user because it's necessary only when writing a new set of > files on the disc. There are several use cases for CD/DVD-RW blanking, it's needed not only when writing a new set of files on the CD/DVD-RW disc: 1. User has several CD/DVD-RW discs and some of them contain unneeded (for example outdated) information. He wanna make order in his CD/DVD-RW disks collection and blanks all disks with unneeded info, then when user wants to write new info he don't need to check if info on CD/DVD-RW disc is useful or not. 2. If user wants to give CD/DVD-RW disc to a friend or a coleague, then in most cases he wants to blank this disk before giving, because he don't want to bother friend/coleague with unuseful (and sometimes very personal) info, which was in this disc before. > Furthermore, coaster (http://files.dersoldat.org/coding/coaster/) already has > this option.
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I think this should either be done by the specialized CD handling application or by Disks. Moving to Disks to see what David thinks.
(In reply to comment #15) > I think this should either be done by the specialized CD handling application > or by Disks. Moving to Disks to see what David thinks. Yup, I think the "Format" and "Restore Disk Image" dialogs in Disks could grow some smarts to support e.g. blanking optical discs and burning ISO files. (I think we only want the basics in Disks. Stuff like DVD authoring, CD audio etc. is best done by a dedicated application such as Brasero or K3B.)
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