On Mi, 2007-10-03 at 14:15 -0400, Ben Konrath wrote: > > > 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? ehmm... what do you mean exactly? i thought something like a remote control would be handy.. like either take a picture remotely or just show a limited cheese, which returns a chosen photo when exiting. > 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. it will, believe me ;) > > Cheers, Ben > > > > -- 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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