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  K3b 1.0 Has Finally Landed
Multimedia Posted by Sebastian Trüg on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @16:02
from the sick-of-postponing-the-inescapable dept.
I am proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0. After years and years of development, all the sweat (actually in the summer it can get sticky in front of the screen), all the tears (ok, admittedly, not that many), and all the countless hours I spent on a single application finally we have what I think is worth the big 1. K3b has come a long way since the early days in 1998 when it started as a dummy project for me to learn C++ and Qt development. The reason for that (besides my hacking) is the amazing feedback I got from the open source community and especially all the KDE worshippers. Give yourself a hand. Without all of you K3b would not have lived this long. I also want to thank Mandriva for supporting the K3b development these last few months. Their KDE support makes a big difference. A ChangeLog is also available.


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by MK on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @16:28
the title says it all... impressive work! Thanks a lot for K3b!
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A big Thanks :)
by Troy Unrau on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @16:54
This is one of my best KDE applications, so a big thank you :)

So the obvious question though is, what are your plans for the application? Can a pretty much perfect program get better? KDE 4 porting? etc.

Cheers *toasts to k3b*
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Congratulations!
by Louis on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @17:27
K3B seems like it should've been a 1.0 a long time ago. I've been using it to make CD's and DVD's for years. For that, I thank you. I appreciate your effort to make it very stable and loaded with features before deeming it version 1. Like others, I can't wait to see what you have planned for the future.
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Well done :-)
by Stuart Longland on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @18:06
K3B is definitely a quality application. I've been using it for a long time myself, prior to that, I was using XCDRoast.

It integrates nicely into KDE applications, supports many features, and is reliable. I've never had a serious problem with it. It does exactly what I ask of it, every time.

If more applications were constructed in the same manner as K3B, the IT industry would look a lot better.
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Just another thank you!
by Bent Terp on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @22:44
Nothing much to add to what the others have said, except MY thanks!
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DCOP calls?
by Marc Driftmeyer on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @23:11
I presume that K3b will have changes before it is a KDE4 app, out-of-the-box since DCOP is being replaced with DBUS, or did I miss something?
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How nice
by Gruffy on Friday 16/Mar/2007, @23:39
That's a great news! :)
Sebastian, thank you for your wonderful work and commitment to the project!
I've been using K3b for years and it just works fine. We are with you, keep it going. :)
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Tanks
by -Flo- on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @01:10
thanks for this great piece of software. Although i don't use it very much, it is really really amazing, what you have done.
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Thanks!!!
by JakubZ on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @02:03
I cannot express with words how grateful I am for this impressive high-quality application! It's applications like this that make me stay with linux. Again, many many thanks to you (and to Mandriva for supporting you).
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Many Thanks!
by winter on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @02:31
Thank you very much, Sebastian! K3b is truly a great piece of software. It has everything you need and want for burning.
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Windows port?
by Frank Becker on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @02:52
$SUBJECT is meant as a serious question.

Previous k3b versions were already the best CD/DVD burning software I've had the pleasure to use, and from the looks of the screenshots version 1.0 looks even better. So... is there a chance that the port to Qt4 opens a possibility for a Windows port of k3b?
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Sweet! Thank you :)
by Darkelve on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @03:11
For me, K3B is the best burning app out there! And I tried a few... It has all I want, and more. The 'feature' I'm looking forward now, is Amarok being able to use K3B's burning process so it can burn music CD's without starting 'full' K3B.
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Excellent
by apokryphos on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @03:25
Certainly one of the greatest KDE applications available, and still one that I consistently see users of all desktop environments (GNOME, XFCE) using. :)
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Me2
by encho on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @04:48
Just to add my 2c. Keep up the excellent work. Nothing comes even close to K3b.
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Nice
by tikal26 on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @07:06
It looks like you have done some nice things with the GUI. I really like what you've done and what you have plan. Thanks for all your work.
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congrats!
by Caoilte on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @09:20
K3b was the First KDE Killer App for me! Even before KMail, K3b was pulling ahead of what other CD burning apps (principally XCDRoast) could do.

I'm glad it's finally got a version number that won't scare people off!
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Big congrats.
by Abe on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @11:44
K3B is the only CD burner I ever used, why use others if they are sub-quality! I still remember two years ago when I sent you an e-mail concerning a problem and, to my big surprise, I got an e-mail from you that solved the issue. That left a good impression and I am sure that I wasn't the only.

Congratulation on an excellent application. From the posts, it sure looks like you made many touched many people by making them happy. I am sure your are proud and satisfied. Keep up the good work and may be your next project would be in video screen capture and editing. Just a hint!
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k3b
by fred on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @13:27
thanks mandriva for zour support!
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Congratulations!
by Sal on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @14:24
Sebastian, Just saying Thank You doesn't seem near enough for everything you've done with k3b! Your hard work and dedication has payed off in spades, everyone who uses Linux is deeply in your debt. May the road always rise to meet you.
Sal
http://www.pclinuxos.com/news.php
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Killer Apps
by KubuntuUserExMandrake on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @15:43
Remember when KDE had the killer desktop/framework but not the killer appas ?

Well, now there are IMHO 4 killer apps in KDE. Apps that are clearly better than anything else inLinux, and most likely in any other OS.

* Konqueror as a all in one browser (thanks to kparts, etc)
* Amarok
* K3b
* KDevelop

There are other booming applications, like Digikam, that will soon reach this category. Not to mention the improvements with KDE4 (Phonon, Plasma ...). This is getting REALLY exciting. Thank you all for the outstanding work.

Sebastian, are you aware of the magnitude of your achievement?
Remarkable!

Cheers!
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more command line tools
by Andi on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @16:24
sorry to put a feature request here, but it just came to my mind.

would it be possible/reasonable to integrate tools like nrg2iso or mdr2iso?
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Proud
by Gabriel Gazzán on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @16:50
You said you are proud to announce the release of K3b 1.0.
I say we, as a community, are proud of what you've achieved; of your vision and the persistence you showed to make it a reality.

Feel proud, we're proud of K3b and specially we're proud of you!

Thanks!
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K3b is truly a killer app.
by Jonathan Zeppettini on Saturday 17/Mar/2007, @17:30
Easily beats any commercial suite on the market in terms of its feature set and ease of use.
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Thaks a LOT!
by Jukka on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @02:45
Thanks for making everyday life easier for us KDE users!
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Wonderful
by Youssef on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @05:14
Original, usable, intuitive, powerful, congratulations to the team!
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Thanks also from me!
by Michael on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @05:48
K3b has always been a special app for me. It might very well be the application that kept me from switching back to Windows. When I tried to switch to Linux around the SuSe 8.x time the biggest obstacle was the fact that there was no decent CD burning application. The only application with an acceptable interface was CD Bakeoven. But you could not burn CD audio directly from MP3. I just could not believe there is not even a decent app to burn Audio CD's. I considered switching back to Windows because this was minimum functionality required for me to use KDE full-time. Soon after I discovered K3b which was then in its infancy. Anyway - it already worked great. I agree to many others who stated that K3b deserved the 1.0 long ago IMHO.
K3b is really a special application in OSS because it just never fails. It does exactly what you want and expect. Even with seldom-used functions. I never tried to burn a Video-DVD. Recently, a colleague wanted to burn one and his Windows system had lots of unexplicable errors and problems. He asked me if I could burn this under Linux. I was sceptical but tried it anyway. This went so flawlessly it's simply amazing. Thanks a lot for all the hard-work that went into this rock-stable product.
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Web page.
by Edward Perry on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @14:23
Congratulations!
I have used K3b since I started Linux. I just took it for granted.
Your screen is one of the best from a User's point of view.

thanks
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Thanks for a great piece of work
by George Tharalson on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @15:42
This application has supported me and my family with multiple s/w Cds and DVDs and video DVDs of weddings, Christenings and family get-togethers, with very few problems (most of which were mine). Carry on and enjoy life.
George
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Its a pity
by KenSand on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @22:37
Its a pity that after all the stirling work of sebastian he cannot sit back and bask in the glory of a job well done. I suppose its the nature of computing that components like cdrecord and DCOP are superseeded and heroes who take on such great projects as K3b cannot stop maintaining them.

Well done, K3b has worked flawlessly for me ever since the earliest version.

Ken
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THANKS!
by Shelton on Sunday 18/Mar/2007, @23:13
What a fantastic effort is K3B - thanks so much for seeing it through to v1 - it's people like you who are the true hero's in this open source world, against a monopolistic evil giant that will never get a penny from me to pump up their bank accounts - thanks again for making this work in Linux!!!!
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Thanks!
by Joergen Ramskov on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @00:58
K3b is a killer app!
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Thanks Sebastian!
by NabLa on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @02:24
Just went thru the announcement at k3b site :) however I miss a description about the all-rewritten video capabilities of the application... has he forgotten!?
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Big Respect
by David Muir on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @07:02
You championed this project in an excellent manner.
Great job and continue success.
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Thanks!
by Antonios Dimopoulos on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @09:32
Thank you very very very very very very much for this great app!
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I think I actually "owe" the k3b team!!
by Joshua Austill on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @12:59
I'm a DBA professionally, I know as much about computers in general as the next geek in line. I'm an expert nowhere other than databases however. About two years ago my gentoo box pooped on an emerge sync && emerge -DNu world, major system update for none gentoo peeps, and I got seriously frustrated and didn't want to spend 3 days rebuilding my box, so I installed xp. I used it for a few weeks until I need to burn a cd, nothing fancy, just burn a simple cd. I downloaded every program possible and even PAID for one and couldn't get it done, I finally ended up re-installing linux JUST to use k3b to burn a stupid cd.

It's that amazing of an application, I rarely burn cd's, never dvd's, but I am dependant enough on k3b that it alone keeps me stuck to linux!!! I'm a huge open source proponent anyways, but I like things that "just work", I am currently an Ubuntu user, it's the first binary distro to "just works" like I want it to enough to get away from gentoo. I started out on LFS actually, but whatever thems is details about me life that no one cares aboot :)

My point is simple, k3b is as close to perfect as perfect gets, I think I'm still using 0.12, and I can't for the life of me imagine what you've done to it to make it 1.0, shoulda been 1.0 a long time ago. Thank you, thank you, and did I mention thank you???
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Greatest burning app
by Thomas on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @00:17
Sebastian! k3b is an amazingly great piece of software. Dear, you've shown some closed-source applications, what quality software looks like!
As we use k3b in our business we already donated some money, but besides from this we want to say "thanks" for your much appreciated work.
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K3B Sucks
by oki muhrer on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @03:14
Hahaha I know it's lame, but I had to say it. All this praise must be bad for Sebastians ego.
But seriously, I have to agree with everybody here. K3b rocks. Whenever I try to show someone (a windoze user) how cool linux is, K3b is the first app I show them. And it only got a '1' now? Rubbish, it's been worth a '1' for a long time. You could teach a lot of people about UI design as well.

Oki
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Congratulations
by Juanjo Alvarez on Thursday 22/Mar/2007, @04:15
What can I say? K3b is awesome and since the first versions it made a world of a different with the until then existing crap^H^H^H^H software on linux for burning.
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Blu-Ray/HD-DVD
by Antonios Dimopoulos on Monday 02/Apr/2007, @09:20
I want to congratulate you one more time.
I want to ask you something: AFAIK there is support from the command line tools for Blu-Ray burning. Have you planned to include this support to K3B?
Congratulations and Thank You!
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