Is it really intentional to have xcdroast in the system tools menu ? Also it it doesn't use the consolehelper mechanism like the other items in that menu, but instead brings up a dialog that explains that it has to be run and configured by root first. Also, usermount ("Disk Management") seems totally redundant with what we have elsewhere...
Also, xmtr ("Traceroute") seems to be redundant with gnome-nettools, and should probably not in the menu
xcdroast probably shouldn't even be installed by default.
Yes, the nautilus CD Creator should deprecate xcdroast. yes, xmtr ("Traceroute") should be removed since nettools is being moved to this menu, see bug 131619 yes, usermount ("Disk Management") should be removed. It is redundant with nautilus/gnome-vfs share mounting from the My Computer system. The only other functionality it provides is floppy formatting which can be done from the Floppy Formatter :-)
( xmtr hangs within 3s of startup on x86_64 ... )
If xmtr a) doesn't work, and b) is supserceded by gnome-nettools, should we just stop building it?
IMO, yes. For reference, the hang-on-start bug is #131754
xmtr was dropped in bug 133011 the relevant usermount stuff is being done in bug 132559 notting, I didn't see xcdroast in the latest install. I'm assuming you've removed that from the default install?
Yes.