Suggestion to Remove KFloppy and hold back K3b

[Jonathan Riddell]

Kai Uwe fixed k3b so that should be good to ship in Applications now
from my casual testing

https://phabricator.kde.org/D4571

Jonathan


On 11 February 2017 at 13:44, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> 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