GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 551938
Image burning dialog
Last modified: 2008-09-28 13:53:54 UTC
I just burned some iso image from opensuse and found the image burn dialog in brasero to be too complicated: After starting brasero you press the big "Burn image" button (nice). Now you get a window with quite a few settings etc. It should be clear on the first lock where user interaction is needed: in this case, the "path" filechooserbutton. I don't think many people actually need to change the recorder device so the whole upper block should be less evident. I have not thought about this UI much yet but a few quick thoughts: * move the image file selection up. * the label "Path" does not really make sense to me, it's a file/image we choose? * "Size: xyz MB free" could be integrated into the device selector. Right now it says "Data CD-R: 'Blank CD-R Disc'" which is of cause redundant. What about just "Data CD-R: xyz MB free" here? * "Status: the medium can be recorded" well, I only care if it is not recordable, in which case this info should be give in the chooser above, like "Data CD-R: not recordable" This would already take quite a bit of the complexity of the dialog IMHO.
Created attachment 118580 [details] Screenshot and Mockup Two other things: * as I said, most users won't have to change the device/medium probably so brasero should not explictly tell the user to "Select" the right one * is the "number of copies" needed? can't we just ask "Want to make another copy" after burning the first? (=> need to replace the disc anyway)
Ah, the burn button should naturally be grayed out if no image is selected :)
Cool changes, looks a lot cleaner and straight forward now. Maybe it's possible to make it even more straight forward by making the headers entrys. Kind of like the GTK+ save dialog does. Image to write: [(None) H] [automatically guess image type (safest) H] Disc to write to: [ Data CD-R: 807MB free H] [properties] Number of copies: [ 1H] [Cancel] [Burn] Not sure if "Number of copies" fits best beneath the other two guys, but your mockup made me wonder if it was the number of copies of the image file it would burn, oppsed to the number of disks you would end up with at your desk in the end. If you see what I mean. :)
Thanks for the ideas. I sticked to the mockup except that I left the number of copies widget under the combo box. There are also other small changes like messages indicating an error. Please test it.
Nice. In the "Select a disc to write to" section, there's a duplication of information now though (compare the text inside the inactive combo and the message area if no disc is inside the drive). Perhaps the combo should just say "No available medium" (instead of also asking the user to insert one) and the message area should only ask the user to insert a medium and not also say that no medium is inserted?