On 03/20/2012 11:38 AM, gt wrote: That's the whole discussion of the thread. I did have dvd+rw-tools > installed, but after Joerg insisted that they are not necessary, i > removed them. And it seems the k3b warning is superficial, it works fine > without dvd+rw-tools. > ah sorry for noise ... I lost track of the beginning of thread ... For me - with both packages installed - I have growisofs and I have no prob burning DVD's via k3b using current kde ... I guess I should remove the dvd+rw-tools package as well :-)