Aaron and Owen pointed me at a podcast about digiKam. As you recall from my cd-burning experience last week, I’m not really very cool and so I have ignored the term ‘podcast’ untill now.

And it seems it is nothing more then a radio program on internet, so what is all the fuzz about, then? Ah well, it is nice to hear one, but less fun when you get disconnected in the middle and Kaboodle (or is there a specialized podKast somewhere?) can not go fast forward. On the other hand it is just a file and after downloading I could skip to where I were.

The content of the podcast, a review of digiKam is ok. As in every review there are some points which are not completely correct, but nothing to serious. The podcast is basically a nice tutorial of digiKam and I wondered if it would be suitable to function as a manual. As far as I can guess the current manual is not read by a lot of people and maybe we could reach a new audience if we create video-manuals of common done tasks. Lets keep that in mind for the future!

I even noted down some points we can change. But first i’m going to prepare the 0.8.0-beta1 release. Screenies are already available at the site.

Because everyone is still on vacation at my work, I was forced to burn a cd today. Probably nothing special to most of you, but I only burned a cd once or twice in my life, so I expected major troubles.

After finishing the graphics and the text for the advertisement, I had to burn those two things on a cd. As I was in Windows at that moment, I decided to look through the menu’s to something which could burn. The only thing I found were expired trial versions. I knew Windows XP does not need any software, but this machine runs Windows 2000.



Ok, time to reboot into something not Windows I thought. Ubuntu was already installed, so that should solve my problems. Gdm offered me Gnome and … Gnome. Hmmm. Ah well, a chance to see how that works and Gnome should be able to burn cd’s after all.

After logging in I see a nice cd-rom icon on the desktop, doubleclick (yeah doubleclick, is that standard on Gnome? If so points++) on that showed me a window with just one button in the bar on the left (burn). Cool. I dragged the two documents from the network (which was on the desktop as well. Is that default (another points++) or did the person normally behind that computer configure that?) to the window and press that button. A popup stated that I should insert a burnable CD. Thinking I ruiened a CD, got another one, inserted it and again that dialog. As I know nothing of Gnome, I decided to quit (yes, I give up easily).

I heard great things about k3b, so I (sudo) apt-getted k3b (with a load of other stuff of course), k3b told me to install cdrdao so I did that as well, after that k3b told me friendly where to drop the stuff on, could not do that directly from the network, but I can understand that, I was still in Gnome of course. Pressed the ‘burn’ button (now I know it is on the bottom right), (maybe reducing the standard options to only a volume name and hiding the rest somewhere?) and two minutes later I had a CD. Which actually is readible in Windows (I could not resist checking). Great! And we have another reason to not run Windows on that workstation!