Bug 137599

Summary: direct burn in k3b (I don't want to need to start the burn process manually)
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Volker <waldi54>
Component: Plugin-Generic-ArchiveAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alberto.mari
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Volker 2006-11-20 00:26:06 UTC
Version:           0.8.2-rc1 (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (dapper) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu1~dapper2)
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.15-27-386

When you do a backup of your photos on a CD or DVD digikam creates a k3b project and starts k3b to burn it. Nevertheless, in k3b you still have to start the burning process manually. 
In the digikam dialog there should be an option "start burning without user interaction". Enabling this, you could force k3b to burn your project directly without having to press some buttons after the creation of the project. In my opinion this could easily be done by a call to k3b's dcop interface ("dcop k3b K3bProject-0 directBurn", k3b version: 0.12.17). Reason why I would like this: At least on my computer, the creation of the thumbnails takes more time than burning the actual CD. So I want to start the whole process and than do something else (maybe leaving the computer alone while having a coffee or something similar). Right now I have to return to press two buttons in k3b... :-(

Thanks a lot for digikam - in my opinion everything you would expect from your photo management program! Really useful!
Comment 1 Angelo Naselli 2006-11-20 09:45:21 UTC
To be honest, I don't like such an option. I believe it's important
to know well when starting burning. Anyway I will look at it and
see if we can add an optional way to do that.

Angelo