Version: 0.11.4 (using KDE 3.1.3) Installed from: Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker Compiler: gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.22-10mdk Burning multisession CDs is done quite often, but session handling in K3b is a bit complicated, specially for beginners. One has to click 'Settings' tab and choose one of 4 options. One has to remember if CD is empty or not (to choose 'Start' or 'Continue multisession'). I suppose it would be easier to use just one checkbox: 'Close CD', (or something like that). That option, if disabled, will enable multisession handling - start multisession if CD is empty - continue with next session otherwise If option is enabled, CD would be closed, regardless of whether it was empty or not. Another thing is that multisession handling should probably be enabled by default and autodisabled only if current session is large enough to fill whole CD.
This is a must have feature! My 20 votes!
just a "close CD" checkbox is not enough since then appendable CD-RW media is hard to handle. So what about a combobox including an "auto" option by default which does exactly what you say: only close if the data fills the CD, continue if the inserted media is appendable and has enough space left and start ms otherwise.
CVS commit by trueg: New "smart" Auto multisession handling mode. K3b decides if to start a multisession CD/DVD, append a new session, or close the CD/DVD based on the size of the project (will it fill up the disk?) and the inserted media. BUGS: 75785 M +1 -0 ChangeLog 1.97 M +14 -11 libk3b/projects/k3bemptydiscwaiter.h 1.3 M +21 -10 libk3b/projects/audiocd/k3baudiojob.cpp 1.8 M +14 -11 libk3b/projects/datacd/k3bdatadoc.cpp 1.10 M +17 -5 libk3b/projects/datacd/k3bdatadoc.h 1.5 M +109 -25 libk3b/projects/datacd/k3bdatajob.cpp 1.10 M +7 -1 libk3b/projects/datacd/k3bdatajob.h 1.3 M +94 -24 libk3b/projects/datadvd/k3bdvdjob.cpp 1.12 M +9 -1 libk3b/projects/datadvd/k3bdvdjob.h 1.3 M +6 -4 libk3b/tools/k3bdevicehandler.h 1.4 M +5 -4 src/k3bdatamodewidget.cpp 1.4 M +17 -5 src/cdcopy/k3bcdcopyjob.cpp 1.83
Sebastian Trueg, wtorek, 22 lutego 2005 07:48: > 2005-02-22 08:48 ------- just a "close CD" checkbox is not enough since > then appendable CD-RW media is hard to handle. So what about a combobox > including an "auto" option by default which does exactly what you say: only > close if the data fills the CD, continue if the inserted media is > appendable and has enough space left and start ms otherwise. That will be great.