Alan: Brasero is a GNOME utility for burning CD's and DVD's for the GNOME desktop.
It provides a library called libbrasero-burn, which other programs (such as sound-juicer and rhythmbox) can use for allowing users to burn CD's or DVD's via their interfaces. In GNOME 2.26, this new library replaces nautilus-cd-burner, which used to provide this feature. Brasero requires privilege because it uses SCSI interfaces for accessing the CD/DVD drive, similar to programs like cdda2wav. Brian >> Please help me review the case of Brasero, I'm going to get rid of gksu >> and use pfexec to get required privileges for brasero. Welcome any >> comments and suggestions. > > It would probably help to explain what Brasero is, since I'm sure I'm not > the only one wondering what it does and why it needs privileges. > > From the reference to the SUNWgnome-cd-burner package in the interfaces, > I'm going to guess it's related to CD drives, in which case I wonder if > "Console Owner" is going to be the right answer for a CD drive connected > to a Sun Ray. (Of course, I'm also fairly sure the existing GNOME CD > infrastructure is rather broken on Sun Rays anyway, since I often get > popups on my Sun Ray server asking what I want to do with the blank CD > that some other user of the server just inserted (admittedly it's still > on nv_79 since it was installed with SXDE and the OpenSolaris replacement > isn't ready yet).) >
