using cheese from an external application

["Ben Konrath" <ben bagu org>]

Hi,

I'm working on writing a new user creation module for firstboot in Fedora. I'd like users to be able to use a webcam to set a photo when they are creating an account.  I've whipped up a couple of first draft mockups of what I envision the interaction to look like:

http://bagu.org/scratch/create-user-file.png
http://bagu.org/scratch/create-user-webcam.png

As you can see, I've used the cheese UI and gnome-about-me UI  as inspiration and I'd like to use cheese to drive the webcam chooser. What are your thoughts on using cheese from external applications? Specifically, are you planning to support something like this in the future? If not, would you accept patches to do so and do you have any thoughts on what would be the best technologies / methods to use to accomplish such a task?

Thanks, Ben