Grind My Gears: Brasero idiocity

This, today, totally pissed me off.

I wanted to burn a file on a cd, so in nautilus I typed burn:// added the files, pressed burned.

This nicely stopped with the message:

BraseroGenisoimage stopping
Session error : The file is not stored locally (brasero_burn_record burn.c:2650)

Well I got a few things to say about that.

  1. ARE YOU F******* CRAZY. I KNOW THAT.
  2. ARE YOU F******* CRAZY.
  3. That file is on a nfs share, located on a raid system connected via a gigabit network.  I get 60-70 mbyte/sec from that share.  MORE then sufficient to burn a cd, or a dvd..
  4. Ok Ok, I can see that for some users you need to warn them.. but just to quit with an error is madness itself. ATLEAST ALLOW ME TO FRIGGING CONTINUE.

I always stayed out of the discussion that GNOME would assume users more stupid with every release, but hitting this, I can only agree.

There is also no entry in regedit gconf-editor to disable this idiotic behauviour.

Q

2 Comments

  • dforbin
    April 3, 2009 - 1:48 am | Permalink

    never seen this, but when I navigate to a samba share with a large directory (say a few hundred folders), brasero 0.8.2 immediately crashes. Sometimes I just pull down a local copy first cuz its less of a pain in the ass. To be fair, I haven’t bothered to investigate further or even check to see if this is fixed. Guess I just haven’t burned much lately.

  • FeRD
    October 30, 2010 - 12:40 am | Permalink

    K3b. That is all. :)

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