The preferences setup of Gnometoaster is probably still the worst-implemented part of the whole project. Generally,you click Edit/Preferences to open up the preferences window. This window contains a few control buttons on itīs bottom and a few configuration"pages".You can toggle between those pages by clicking the text describing the respective part of the configuration setup. The button "Apply" applies all the changes done to the configuration and reinitializes parts of Gnometoaster with the new values. The "Ok" Button is pretty much the same,only it hides the preferences box afterwards."Undo" restores the preferences entries to the values they had before they were edited. "Cancel" does the same and just like "ok" hides the preferences box afterwards. If youīre running Gnometoaster for the first time you should first of all create two Directories Gnometoaster needs for internal purposes. The first one is the directory where Gnometoaster will store itīs temporary files (e.g. tracks that canīt be read quickly enough to be written directly to a cdrom have to be stored on your harddrive). The drive this directory resides in should have at least 650MB of free disc space available unless you want to write everything on the fly (without precaching). Enter the name of this directory including itīs full unix path instead of the path displayed besides the label "Temp files" on the page called "Common". (Entry locations will be referred to as Page/Label from now on. The Second path you need is entered at ISO9660/"CDfs Area". It will usually contain nothing more than a few symbolic links to the actual files to be stored on your disc,so you wonīt need much disc space for that directory. Next,enter a list of the cdrom drives your system has in "CDROM Drive Setup"/"valid drives".Simply name the device names associated with your drives separated by spaces here. Now,enter the device name of your cd recorder in Recorder/"Recorder device" and itīs full scsi id in Recorder/"SCSI ID". The scsi id does usually consist of two numbers: the scsi id and the lun(logical unit number) of the drive you want to specify. However,if you have more than one scsi card installed on your system (the ide2scsi interface counts as an additional scsi card),you have to specify three number in the order scsi bus,scsi id,lun. This should usually be it,all the other configuration entries should usually contain working default values. They mainly describe the way how Gnometoaster calls itīs client programs like cdrecord or cdda2wav,which should be pretty consistent,even among different versions of the client software.If you should have to change those settings one day,make sure you consult the documentation available for the respective client programs. Variables used in those calls are replaced at runtime with their respective values.