Im really liking Graveman for gui cd burning.
For most iso's and stuff I use cdrecord from the command line but sometimes I need to pick through a directory and decide as I go what files to add and what to leave out, jobs like this tend to favour a GUI.
I used to use K3b but prefer GTK over QT if I have a choice. Besides that, graveman *seems* faster than k3b, no real data to back it up but id does load much faster for me presumably because Xfce4 has already some gtk libs loaded?
Anyway the app still lacks some features but it looks like they are on the TODO list.

I also played with aptsh Which is a shell wrapper around apt, I havent had much time to check it out fully but it has some handy alias's like "show" instead of "apt-cache show" and similar ones for install and remove. You can type "help" or "help-howto | less" for some more details


http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/aptsh