Re: second report: cheese integration

[Felix Kaser <f kaser gmx net>]

Bastien Nocera schrieb:
> 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.
>
>   
my project isn't about finding media....I see the use cases more in the 
field, where you don't want to use a picutre you have, but you want to 
shoot a new one! It happens often that I'm in front of a 
avatar-choosing-function on some website or application and don't really 
have one that fits! Some are too funny, some too crazy, some have a bad 
quality!

This gives the user the possibility to take a new picture, a serious one 
if a serious one is needed, a funny one when the user prefers a funny one...

Ok, you can say the user has to start cheese, shoot a picture, save it, 
open the website where he needs the photo (or also another application 
which wants a picture, like gdmphotosetup), search for the avatar 
picture and finally uses it!

In my opinion some people will use it, some won't! But thats another 
problem...I for my part don't use the "Search" function in 
gtk-file-chooser, but if I need it, it's there...