GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 347648
Opening brasero from CD/DVD Creator in the places main menu
Last modified: 2008-12-16 11:14:41 UTC
Nautilus has a very crude cd burning capability integrated with it via the nautilus-cd-burner gnome module. Currently, this can be accessed by going to Places --> CD/DVD Creator in Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake. I would like to see this exact same menu item open up bonfire with the new Project dialog instead of nautilus. Manually editing the Exec and TryExec lines in /usr/share/applications/nautilus-cd-burner.desktop works, but is somewhat hackish. I'm sure there is a better way. Use case follows: Opening bonfire from the gnome places menu: With bonfire installed currently, navigating to Places --> CD/DVD Creator opens up nautilus-cd-burner. This is an undesirable effect and should be changed to bonfire by default upon bonfire's installation. - User navigates to Places --> CD/DVD Creator under the gnome desktop environment. - Bonfire opens up the default new project dialog.
That's a good idea but I don't want to modify nautilus installed .desktop files. So I'll leave this bug open until a better solution comes up.
Maybe the solution is: 1 open a bug against gnome-control-center asking to add a "CD Burner" section for the Preferred Applications capplet. 2 write code to add this new section. Here users should be able to select their preferred application to create/burn disks (nautilus burn://, brasero, k3b, ...) 3 when 1 and 2 are solved, open a bug against nautilus, asking to launch the preferred applicatione to create/burn disks from Places --> CD/DVD Creator and not the hardcoded "nautilus burn://". This also mean that we could kill nautilus-cd-burner.desktop and add panel-cd-burner.desktop This is IHMO the proper way in the desktop environment point of view. Of course this means that this is not a brasero bug....
I agree. I'll do that. Thanks for the suggestion.
Luca is right i opened a bug for G-C-C to add the burning section to the preferred applications capplet. Track bug #476423 Sorry for the delay to get this going.
Does it make sense to have the "CD/DVD Creator" as part of the Places menu if it's no longer part of the file manager? All the current places open in a well unified file manager interface. If basic burning is no longer to be integrated into file browsing in that way, why have an entry in the Places menu at all? Brasero's (very well organized) action oriented opening screen seems inconsistent with the behavior of the other places. How about either letting the file manager retain burning capability, maybe enhanced by making it one of the default places in the sidebar so that it's as easy to drag files to Burn as Trash, or, alternatively, just cutting the "CD/DVD Creator" from the places and giving up on the file manager oriented location metaphor for handling burning? My (statistically insignificant) preference is to maintain the consistency and integration of the nautilus cd creator at the expense of isolating Brasero's more advanced capabilities in the Applications menu. This is what Ubuntu does now. Just a random user's thoughts.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 508384 ***