Bug#281466: nautilus-cd-burner: Lack of (advanced) documentation

[Javier Kohen]

El vie, 03-08-2007 a las 23:30 +0200, Sven Arvidsson escribió:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 20:40 -0500, Javier Kohen wrote:
> > I wanted to give this package a try, but I just couldn't find out
> > whether it supports multi session writing. I checked the bundled docs
> > and ran a few searches on google.com but I still don't know what writing
> > method it uses and whether multi session discs are detected, correctly
> > processed and generated.
> > 
> > Of course I didn't check the code, but I'd rather stick to the command
> > line tools than read the source of a small GNOME application to find out
> > what it does :-)   Unfortunately others can't do either easily.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder where you feel this information belong? Putting it in the
> package description would mean that it would show up if you search for
> multi session writing (and would probably end up making people angry
> when they found out it's NOT supported), putting it in a README inside
> the package seems kinda moot as you must install it to read it. I guess
> this belongs on a web site, but n-c-b does not have one.
> 
> (Also, do you still care about this bug?, seeing as it's almost three
> years old ;-) 

To be honest, I care insofar that I haven't used this application at all
because I still don't know whether it supports multi-session or not.
However, you just answered my question :)

I think that maybe the documentation should be added upstream and not on
the package description or the README, for the same reasons you
detailed.

Thanks,
-- 
Javier Kohen <jkohen at users.sourceforge.net>
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