DVD recording

Hi I have Ricoh DVD+RW recorder at home and i do not know how to use in linux as DVD recorder. My distro is SuSE 8.1 ftp version. i notice that package K3B witch support DVD recording but i do not know how? In distro SuSE 8.0 was one package dvdrecord. Is this package what i am looking for? Thx for answers P.S. Sorry if my english is not so perfect but i think you can understand what i mean