Version: 0.12.17 (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux Here is a suggestion from Thue Janus Kristensen <thuejk@gmail.com> as reported on the Debian bug tracker (http://bugs.debian.org/398795): In the initial window, select an ISO image. A screen pops up, and it starts calculating the image's MD5 sum. If I start writing before the sum is calculated then it writes "calculation failed" (should probably be "calculation cancelled"). I then burn the image, and as part of the burn verification the image's MD5 sum is calculated. However, when I close that dialog after finishing burning and come back to the previous screen it still says "calculation failed". It could just as easily reuse the MD5 sum it had just calculated. That would also be useful when burning severel DVDs from the same image sequentially.
In my opinion this is a usability problem in that the MD5 sum of the image should not be displayed at all in the burn dialog since it does not serve a practical purpose (apart from being confusing in the sense that people think they have to wait for it to finish). I am marking this as very low priority, since it will probably go away when bugs like bug 98128 and bug 116765 are implemented. Apart from that it is a valid point
I mark this one as fixed although K3b does not behave as requested. K3b calculates the md5sum while burning, so the effect it the same.
It seems that it does not even use the MD5 sum calculated at the first screen, even if you wait for it to be calculated. That is just silly.
no, it is not. There is no time lost the way K3b does it and it is much cleaner.