Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Sat Feb 11 13:44:57 UTC 2017


We tested some legacy media at the Plasma sprint

http://jriddell.org/2017/02/11/plasma-sprint-legacy-media-support-in-kde-applications/

I recommend KFloppy be removed from Applications releases.  It
couldn't find my floppy drive and when I hacked the code to tell it
where to look it depended on an external tool fdformat which didn't
work anyway.  It's only feature is to format a disc and arguably
support could be added to partitonmanager although it didn't work when
I tried it.

K3b can't create data projects so shouldn't get released until at
least that gets fixed
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375016

We seem to have no great solution to playing audio CDs, dragonplayer
doesn't understand playlists so can't select a track, amarok doesn't
see any tracks and kscd uses client side window decorations and skins
with all the evilness of that.  Vlc works fine.

Jonathan


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