Re: ANN: Burn.app 0.3.0

[Andreas Heppel]

Fabien!
Sorry for answering so late.

On 2003-02-18 16:25:13 +0100 Fabien VALLON <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> Andreas Heppel (address@hidden) wrote:
>
> > - Burn.app now uses CDPlayer.app's AudioCD.bundle to load audio CDs
> >    and read their TOC.
>
> I would like to know if it is plan to extend NSWorkspace to allow lauching 
> best app (ie defined by the user) for something that haven't extention 
> (like audio), URL.
The question is, how you would want to achieve this. Unfortunately, tracks 
on an audio CD apart from not having a file extension don't have a MIME-type 
or something similar either (AFAIK). We would have to invent something.
Another question that arises is that we would need to define a 'protocol' 
for data exchange, i.e. Burn.app would have the need that the 'preferred 
app' could deliver the CD's TOC. Apart from that it's a good idea. I am not 
really happy with the current solution of using the AudioCD.bundle in 
Burn.app, but it's the easiest way at the moment.
Uuuhm, while writing this an idea comes to mind. It is still bound to 
CDPlayer.app, but nevertheless will be more flexible than the way I do it 
now. And it will be a step towards the direction of  a 'best app' for 
playing/browsing audio CDs. Let me think about it a while.

> idem for File Operations :
> Currently we have : NSWorkspaceMoveOperation,NSWorkspaceCopyOperation, 
> NSWorkspaceLinkOperation,NSWorkspaceCompressOperation,
> NSWorkspaceDecompressOperation,NSWorkspaceEncryptOperation 
> NSWorkspaceDecryptOperation NSWorkspaceRecycleOperation, 
> NSWorkspaceDuplicateOperation.
>
> Can we add "constant" that app will add like NSWorksapceEncodAudio,
> NSWorksapceBurnOnCD.........
Do we really need this? I mean currently you have the coice of either 
dnd'ing files from GWorkspace to Burn.app or using the offered service. If 
you invent a new file operation 'NSWorkspaceBurnOnCD' how would you invoke 
it? DnD? Makes no sense (see above). A new menu item in GWorkspace? Mmmh. 
What if you have no burner?

Cheers,
Andreas


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