fedora 6/7 - why do you ignore k3b by default?

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Wed May 16 08:37:30 UTC 2007


On 5/15/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > Why isn't the best burning software on by default on new fedora 6/7
> > installations?
> Best is certainly subjective. If I a GNOME user I certainly don't want a
> whole bunch of KDE packages to have K3b installed. If I just want to
> burn some files quickly nautilus cd burning is more suitable. For other
> purposes there are programs like Brasero.

I'm not only giving my own personal opinion, but also of a few other
people who switched from windows to linux desktop. And they love k3b
more than they did Nero on the "dark" side :)

> > Is there some particular reason? I see k3b as the best cd/dvd burning
> > app and it should be installed by default IMHO.
>
> Installed by default in where? The GNOME based live images wouldn't have
> enough space. KDE based live images already have them. If you choose KDE
> in "Fedora" spin you get k3b by default too.

I installed gnome desktiop from Fedora 7 test 4 dvd, and I feel that
from DVD it should be installed by default no matter what DE I choose.

Gnome has some programs that KDE doesn't and also is true for the KDE
(qt). There is no point sticking to only one platform - the best apps
from whole array of linux apps should be presented to new users. Users
don't care it it's qt or not.

> > Also when it is installed by hand it still doesn't play well on Fedora
> > 6/7 desktops.
> > I posted a bug for it:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240097
> >
> > Can you please give a bit more of much needed attention to k3b?
>
> Merge will get such programs more maintainers hopefully.
>
> Rahul

Great !

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