Comment 98 for bug 529696

I don't mean to be offensive to anyone, my aim is to be constructive, this is the preamble...I wanted to say that I personally have solved the problem taking cdrdao ver. 1.23 from a puppy linux forum and brutally copying into /usr/bin; now brasero doesn't complain anymore that the plugin is old, and I've been able to copy a data cd with no problem. BUT let me say: THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE! Don't get me wrong, but we can't have programmers that spend their precious time making a fancy cube rotate, AND THE DEFAULT BURNING APPLICATION DOESN'T COPY A CD! this bug (and there are many others duplicate) was opened in February! I am not a programmer, but I think that essential bugs like this MUST be solved in hours! You have to investigate WHY brasero complains, why it asks for the libraries? ok, but if giving it a new library solves the problem, then go for it! Tell Ubuntu maintainers to pull in this new cdrdao and everything works! Then you'll take your time to investigate, but in the meanwhile the newbie won't go back to windows because he can't copy a cd! You'll agree with me that bugs like this are frustrating, you go to your friend telling him to try this marvelous Linux that is ages forward his windows and when he tries to copy a cd he can't! Come on, it's not possible! Ubuntu is simple, it lets you do by default not tons of things, but they are essential things, at least these ones MUST be perfect.
p.s.: I still haven't found a solution for the other bug (from my point of view essential too), the one that blanked dvds are not recognized by brasero (but are by gnomebaker, for example).