hey ben! On Di, 2007-10-02 at 15:04 -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: > 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: awesome idea! > > 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? well i _had_ plans about that but unfortunately no time to do it ;) what i wanted to do was a dbus interface, which other applications can call and then get a photo back. this should be quite the same as you thought above, but it allows much more applications to do that (buddy icon on instant messengers, games, gdm, ...) > Specifically, are you planning to support something like this in the > future? of course i will! > 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? of course i would accept patches, unfortunately i dont have time at the moment, as i have to write some exams.. but if you want to look into that further, just go ahead! daniel > > Thanks, Ben > _______________________________________________ > Cheese-list mailing list > Cheese-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/cheese-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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