Re: using cheese from an external application

["Ben Konrath" <ben bagu org>]

On 10/3/07, daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> wrote:

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, ...)

The dbus interface sounds good. Did you envision having a dbus interface for the preview video? I don't know enough about dbus to comment on if that will work well but I'll ask on fedora-desktop list to get some comments.

Cheers, Ben