Hello dear Planet KDE readers! Since it’s my first post on this blog let me introduce myself. My name is Michał Małek, I’m 27 and I write to you from Poland. But I think the most interesting information for you is that I’m a developer of K3b. For those of you who, by any chance, didn’t hear of it: it’s (mainly) a CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning application built on top of KDE Platform.
This blog will provide you with information about K3b development. There weren’t a lot info about it in the last months so, according to Aaron, you could assume the project is dead. That’s not the case.
I came into K3b development about a year ago when I found out that one of my favorite applications is still not ported to KDE4. Today K3b 2.0 is not finished yet but we’re not that far from it either. I’m happy to announce a new alpha release which is an effect of a monthly bug crushing. Two little features were also added. Most of the reported crashes have been fixed so the application should be rather stable. It should still be used carefully though, especially with important data.
Changelog since K3b 1.68 (2.0-alpha3)
New features
Bugfixes
- Crash at the beginning of burning (204333)
- Crash during DVD ripping (207958)
- Crash right after burn (195436)
- Crash during Audio CD ripping (198015)
- Crash at the beginning of ripping Audio CD with data tracks (186555)
- Crash at the beginning of burning cue/bin image (190775)
- Fixed various typos in UI (208401, 209512)
- Fixed potential aliasing issues (210890)
- Show only one entry on the task list even when dialog window is opened (211680)
- Show correct size when project contains invalid links (212609)
- Show correct elapsed time when burning over midnight (211604)
- Added timeout when checking version number and features of executable (212582)
- Fixed visually endless busy status when opening an empty folder (113649)
- Burning double-layer DVDs should be possible again (214115)
- Crash at the beginning of burning (204333)
- Crash during DVD ripping (207958)
- Crash right after burn (195436)
- Crash during Audio CD ripping (198015)
- Crash at the beginning of ripping Audio CD with data tracks (186555)
- Crash at the beginning of burning cue/bin image (190775)
- Fixed various typos in UI (208401, 209512)
- Fixed potential aliasing issues (210890)
- Show only one entry on the task list even when dialog window is opened (211680)
- Show correct size when project contains invalid links (212609)
- Show correct elapsed time when burning over midnight (211604)
- Added timeout when checking version number and features of executable (212582)
- Fixed visually endless busy status when opening an empty folder (113649)
- Burning double-layer DVDs should be possible again (214115)
November 28, 2009 at 12:38 |
Showing up on the planet is really a good idea. You can communicate easily with other developers and the users.
Thank you for your work!
November 28, 2009 at 12:46 |
Thanks a lot for your efforts. K3B is an awesome application and by far the most advanced open source burning suite!
November 28, 2009 at 12:58 |
Hi and welcome!
Really cool to see you blog about your work, make sure you keep us updated regularly… It’s good to hear K3B is still alive
November 28, 2009 at 13:06 |
Thanks for your job
November 28, 2009 at 14:23 |
Why is k3b-devel not public?
Is the admin paranoid?
November 28, 2009 at 14:27 |
Whis mailing list is alive?
November 28, 2009 at 14:29 |
And the web site looks like you are NOT welcome as developer.
November 28, 2009 at 14:33 |
Also the site looks soooo outdated!
November 28, 2009 at 14:42 |
Is it k3b or k4b?
November 28, 2009 at 17:33 |
It’s K3b, it stands for “KDE Burn Baby, Burn”
November 28, 2009 at 15:56 |
I don’t have much to add other than thanks for working on K3b.
November 28, 2009 at 16:12 |
“Show correct elapsed time when burning over midnight” – I discovered this bug 15 hours ago (at midnight) and I make a TODO that I have to report it. And BOOM – alredy fixed…
Great work! Can’t wait to test final two-point-oh..
November 28, 2009 at 17:11 |
When do you expect 2.0 to be released?
November 28, 2009 at 17:31 |
When all critical bugs will be fixed. We don’t want to release a “stable” version which breaks discs and user’s data.
November 28, 2009 at 17:17 |
It’s great to have news about k3b!!!
k3B is one of my favorite apps.
November 28, 2009 at 17:36 |
Any chance transcoding support will be based on Phonon or GStreamer? The need to develop special plugins just for K3b seems bad to me.
November 28, 2009 at 22:34 |
Phonon is too high-level for our purposes. As for GStreamer, I don’t know, maybe it would fit our needs. But we’re not planning to change our plugin system as it works well. Maybe in the future, when maintaining it become a hassle… We’ll see.
November 28, 2009 at 23:56 |
K3b is one of my most favourite applications and my most favourite burning app of them all. So I must say big thanks to you and all others working on it. Don’t forget to add your name to the developers list on the webpage
November 30, 2009 at 01:19 |
… and one of these days we will also see the windows port of k3b 2.0
February 28, 2010 at 06:45 |
While not as great as K3B in my opinion. CDRTFE is almost K3B for windows and does kick some butt.
http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/
November 30, 2009 at 11:42 |
Thx for your work !
December 3, 2009 at 17:06 |
Thanks Michał, your work is appreciated.
December 3, 2009 at 20:47 |
Many thanks for your work on k3b ! It is a great app thanks your help.
December 6, 2009 at 21:39 |
Hey, I’m proud someone from Poland took significant role in developing my most frequently used app :]
Do you plan to update documentation as well?
December 9, 2009 at 00:07 |
Cześć! No, I’m afraid I won’t find a time for that
Any help with documentation is welcomed though. Interested?
April 8, 2010 at 04:08
Hi Michał,
Thanks for your great work on K3b. Has anyone volunteered to do some documentation work on K3b yet? If not, I’m interested in having a go at it.
Cheers,
Chris
April 8, 2010 at 07:34
Great! Nobody volunteered yet so your help would be very appreciated.
April 8, 2010 at 07:59
Hi Michał,
That sounds good. Would you mind shooting me a quick email to discuss? Or is there a specific IRC channel you use?
Thanks,
Chris
December 11, 2009 at 15:50 |
I doubt if I can write 4 words without 8 mistakes… I’m rather a documentation translator (also for k3b). Well, if there won’t be any volunteer maybe I will think about it in future.
December 9, 2009 at 10:00 |
Thanks from Italy too
version 1.69 is really a huge improvement – you brougth k3b back in my system
December 10, 2009 at 00:35 |
Michal,
Congratulations and many thanks! I share your enthusiasm for K3B, if not your developer’s skills. You have certainly taken on a daunting challenge, given the reputation that K3B has for elegance and ease of use.
The very best wishes from all us K3B fans with excessive expectations. Now I’m off to file a bug report, of course.
John
December 11, 2009 at 13:44 |
Thx for your hard work~
December 13, 2009 at 22:21 |
Hi Michal
Finally!
Thanks for picking up speed. I had lost hope for k3b.
Cheers, Eric
December 16, 2009 at 15:24 |
Hi
Two issues:
-> “Hide menu window while writing” is checked but it doesn’t hide it.
-> Can’t uncheck/disable “Enable Konqueror Integration” and plugins.
(1.68.0_alpha3 on Gentoo)
Thanks.
December 16, 2009 at 15:56 |
Hi,
“Hiding main window while writing” is alreadyfixed in SVN. As for disabling file manager integration: I will look into it.
In the future please use bugs.kde.org for bug reporting, I might not notice the comments or just forget them.
December 16, 2009 at 16:02
OK, Thanks.
December 17, 2009 at 17:09 |
Thanks from Argentina too! I hope stable release 2.0 to be ready for its inclusion in Debian Squeeze before February.
December 19, 2009 at 01:41 |
People like you shows that open-source will never die, great work great piece of software, I`m looking forward to see k3b 2.0 final in all its glory!
Stary jesteś wielki!
December 28, 2009 at 00:40 |
It’s really great news to read that k3b (my favorite “toaster”) is going beter and beter.
Really tanks a lot for this excellent work you did on k3b
Keep going
All the best
Thierry
December 28, 2009 at 15:04 |
k3b is the reason that I stay with KDE 3 and I am thinking switch to GNOME too.
Happy New Year.
December 29, 2009 at 15:23 |
Could you please look on this: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143695
January 2, 2010 at 21:43 |
The distro with which I’ve stayed for quite a while now, Mepis, is KDE-based but the developer has (wisely) refrained from incorporating KDE4 into it until now. The first KDE4 iteration should be ready in a few weeks. I’ve been sufficiently concerned about K3b in KDE4 that I’ve checked the K3b website hoping for progress every few months. I’m *really* glad to find you’re working on K3b. It’s a marvelous utility that I use constantly. I used a few other CD writers long ago in my Windows days but K3b is superior in terms of both ease of use and audio quality; oddly, audio CDs made with it, when played over a good stereo system, sound noticeably better than CDs burned in Windows. Thank you for your efforts.
January 16, 2010 at 19:35 |
Thank you for your work! Well done!
January 17, 2010 at 11:49 |
It’s good to see that the project is still alive. Thank you for your work on K3B!
January 18, 2010 at 23:46 |
One of my favourites apps in KDE! Well done man ^^
Regards from Barcelona
January 22, 2010 at 16:27 |
I am a little confused because on the k3b web page – the team…there are no changes?? There are no much or I don’t know where to find roadmap for k3b for KDE 4…
Thanks in advance.
Marko
January 22, 2010 at 16:31 |
Yep, the site needs a rework. There simply is no manpower to update it. But hopefully we’ll find a time to do that.
January 28, 2010 at 02:06 |
Tack för KB3..verkligen så nice” använda och ..enkel..och bra på alla sätt o vis..Har använt många olika burners” i både windows och linux..men KB3 är den jag fastnat för..Stort Tack
January 30, 2010 at 13:06 |
Thanks a lot for working on K3B-2
January 31, 2010 at 12:52 |
I’ve always enjoyed using K3B since Mandrake. It has never given me a bad burn. Excellent app! Well done! My thanks to the devs & contributors who make it possible.
February 17, 2010 at 23:21 |
In KDE3 version, when you pressed F2 to rename the files in project, just the first part of name was selected (not the extension). It was a wonderful feature which allowed to edit, copy & paste similar file names very fast. Is it planned to add this feature to the KDE4 version?
Regards and thanks very much for you great work!
February 17, 2010 at 23:24 |
Yep, I also liked this feature
It was lost during porting to Qt4 but it will definitely come back, probably for 2.1 version.
February 17, 2010 at 23:53
Wonderful! Thanks very much
April 12, 2010 at 20:58 |
Hello and thanks for the work,
when will HAL be kicked out of k3b’s dependencies? HAL is dead by upstream and with xorg-server 1.8 it is not needed for X anymore. So besides some KDE stuff it doesn’t seem to be needed anymore. Would be good to get rid of it.
Thanks & Greetings
April 12, 2010 at 20:59 |
Hi, see here: http://michalm.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/the-second-candidate/#comment-168
April 24, 2010 at 15:15 |
Hi everybody,
I don’t speak english very well, so sorry for that.
I have just 2 questions to do, but before I want to thanks all the team that work hard for give us this fantastic program.
I think this is not the right place for ask this 2 things but I don’t know where I should ask.
The questions are:
1) when I make an Audio CD, once I put the tracks in the project, I can’t move them and re-order as I want. If I move a track from the the place 12 to place 2 for example, k3b doesn’t move the track, just creates another one in the place 2. So I have the same track duplicated. The question is: there is a manner for decide the order that I want and move the tracks up and down as I want?
2) I have the packet libk3b6-extracodecs, but some mp3 files cannot be converted when I put them in a Audio CD project. Did I miss some package?
Thanks for the answare and for the very good product you give us!
P.S. I use Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4.2 and K3b 1.68.0
April 24, 2010 at 20:11 |
Hi Luca,
1) This issue has been fixed in recent versions of K3b
2) This sounds like a bug, please report it on bugs.kde.org. We’ll try to investigate it from there.
May 7, 2010 at 23:57
Ok, thank you very much!
May 1, 2010 at 18:25 |
I added your name in the infobox (under developers) of Wikipedia’s k3b article.
May 9, 2010 at 11:42 |
Hi:
Congratulations for your work. It’s a great application, I’ve been using it for years and I’m very satisfied with it.
Can I ask you, when are you going to try a “G3b” for Gnome?
Never mind, I work with Gnome and use K3b instead and fits good, but…
Best Regards
Miguel SSM, Spain.
May 19, 2010 at 20:07 |
The segfault on startup bugs using Fedora 12 rpms isn’t fixed. there are a lot of dupe bugs, all closed NOTMAINTAINED. So for me, K3B is, at the moment, non-functional. From the crashfile:
K3bDevice::from4Byte (d=0x8fbf004 ) at k3bdeviceglobals.cpp:203
I hope K3B is ready soon, and get’s into Fedora 12 soon afterwards.
May 20, 2010 at 00:19 |
This issue has been fixed in KDE4 version of K3b, see here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204614