Posts tagged ‘gnome’

Burning audio CDs on Linux

I just had a blast from the past!

Being somewhat spoiled by the current state of Linux-on-the-desktop (Gnome in my case) I have become used to inserting a blank CD, point Nautilus to burn:///, dragging and dropping a few files into it, and finally clicking the “Burn to CD” button. Works beautifully. Of course I thought that Nautilus’ CD-burning would know about audio CDs. So I dragged a few WAV files into Nautilus and clicked the button. VoilĂ , a data CD containing a few Wav files! Not really what I wanted.

So, to avoid this in the future here is the command line to use:

wodim -v dev=0,0,0 speed=40 -audio -pad *.wav

Epilicious losing support for del.icio.us

I was getting too many reports of problems on using epilicious together with del.icio.us. What finally did it was Gnome bug #491977. The patch provided was applied in the 2.20 tree. In the current development tree I simply removed support for del.icio.us alltogether. It’s just not worth the hassle!

It’s just somewhat unfortunate that the name of the plugin doesn’t fit that well anymore.

Abject oriented programming and some serious stuff

Metacity joy…

My first GNOME commits