UI should expose option to strip special characters

[Onkar Shinde]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

In intrepid Rhythmbox is replacing sound juicer as CD ripper. There is one big problem. Rhythmbox does not have option 'Strip Special Characters' exposed in UI. But same option is available in sound-juicer. So whenever I try to rip a song with special characters like '!' in the name to a FAT32 file system, rhythmbox gives an error. Also it shows wrong error for which I will file another bug.

I am attaching screenshots of both rhythmbox and sound juicer preferences.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, there's a gconf key for that : library_strip_chars ; just open gconf-editor and enable it, not a bug, thanks.

[Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde)]

Pedro,

This is certainly a usability bug. You can not expect average user to edit gconf keys. Also the option was present on UI in sound-juicer. So if rhythmbox plans to replace it, it should have same option in UI.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

well that's a different issue and the summary of the bug needs to be rephrased or fill a new bug. leaving this as incomplete waiting for reporter comments.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent the feature request to : http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551017

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

comment from upstream:

"No, it's a bad idea to have an option for this sort of thing. Average users
should not have to do *anything at all* just to get things working. We should
always ensure the target filesystem can handle the filenames we create, and in
fact that's what we try to do. It's just broken at the moment.
"

Feel free to comment on the upstream report if they re open the bug we'll do the same, thanks.