Re: second report: cheese integration

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:28 +0200, Felix Kaser wrote:
> Bastien Nocera schrieb:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:12 +0200, Felix Kaser wrote:
> > <snip>
> >   
> >> After having a working slim dbus version I will try to get the whole 
> >> thing into gtk-file-chooser! At the moment this sounds really scary to 
> >> me, but lets see how it will be!
> >>     
> >
> > Why do you want to put it in a GtkFileChooser?
> >
> >   
> the idea was to integrate cheese across the gnome desktop! before 
> applying at summer of code, I talked a lot with Daniel Siegel, how to 
> integrate cheese. first we thought to make cheese dbus-capable and then 
> give other applications the possibility to use cheese! But then I 
> thought about all the web-applications which use avatar pictures...like 
> facebook, miaplaza, studivz and so on! It would be great, if 
> gtk-file-chooser has the possibility to access cheese via dbus, so you 
> have automatically integrated cheese in every program that uses 
> gtk-file-chooser (which is nearly every application running under 
> gnome)! I think this could be possible, because gtk-file-chooser has 
> already the ability to search files, and thats provided with tracker 
> which is also outside of gtk-file-chooser!
> 
> You have the possibility to call cheese over dbus from Firefox, pidgin, 
> Evolution, GIMP, etc!
> 
> sounds nice doesn't it? =)

Not really, given that Cosimo's work would make finding avatar pictures,
or any other types of media pretty straight forward.

99% of the applications wouldn't use it, so I'm not sure integrating it
with the filechooser is such a good idea.