Digital camera support (was: Re: help sanity check the release notes)

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 20:37 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 20:28 -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > Why not using camera:// ?
> 
> Because it might conflict with another camera gvfs backend we might want
> to add in the future?

Using what?
That would also mean applications wouldn't be able to use it as they
would need to know about it. Nothing is being abstracted in the end.

> > And you could aslo add support for Mass Storage camera at the same time
> > so that it be unified. Two way to do that: just "rebind" the mounted
> > device or use the disk: driver in gphoto2.
> 
> Why would we ever want to do that? It would dog slow and the gphoto2 API
> is a bit craptastic; you can't do partial reads etc. etc. Besides, Mass
> storage cameras already work very well using the kernel mass storage
> drivers.

Not if access the file system directly (which is the solution #1 I just
proposed when I said "rebinding"). So far you are not making the
application implementation easier as they'd have to distinguish one with
the other.
BTW your comment about libgphoto2 API are still being awaited on the
gphoto-devel mailing list. For now it is a bit of an "in your face"
gratuitous comment.


Hub