Jun 29 2006
14:18 GMT
Bonfire / Brasero: the future K3b killer? gnome

Maybe not yet, but it's a good start. Bonfire 0.3.90 is "just another CD/DVD burn application for the GNOME desktop."

To me however, it doesn't look like "just another one", since it was designed with the ease of use in mind, thus making it able to dethrone K3b in the future! (Yes, I know people that use K3b even in GNOME — what a shame, when they have GnomeBaker, Graveman, and of course, Nautilus Burner.)

Ergonomics speaking, its starting screen is more than self-explanatory, and please note that it's even able to preview (GStreamer-based) multimedia files while organizing what to burn!


...and will burn now:


[Download the sources].

Dependencies for bonfire-0.3.90 (corrected):
  • glib-2.0 >= 2.6.0
  • gdk-2.0 >= 2.6.0
  • gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6.0
  • libgnome-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.10.0
  • gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.14.2
  • gnome-vfs-module-2.0
  • gstreamer-0.10 >= 0.10.6
  • gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 >= 0.10.0
  • libnautilus-burn >= 2.14.0
  • libxml-2.0 >= 2.6.0
NOTE: Unfortunately, you have to be too on the bleeding edge to be able to compile it! I couldn't satisfy all the dependencies under Debian testing/unstable...

OH, WAIT! After some (reasonable) pain, I was able to compile bonfire-0.3.1 (the previous version, also requiring hal) on Debian:


P.S.: It's also listed on Gnomefiles.

NOTE: Meantime, it changed its name into Brasero.

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