Re: [gthumb-list] gvfs-based photo importer

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> I have committed my first attempt at modifying the photo importer to use 
> gvfs with the libgphoto2 backend.

I forgot to mention 2 things:

1) The gvfs-gphoto backend is supposed to provide access to image 
previews through G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON, though it doesn't seem 
to work on my Fedora 10 system. Perhaps I need a later version of 
something, but I also suspect that we are not extracting the pixbuf from 
the gicon correctly anyway. I would appreciate it if someone could 
test/examine src/dlg-photo-importer.c:gfile_get_preview in trunk.

Since the G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON fails, we are mostly using 
gdk_pixbuf ops to generate a scaled preview, which is slow of course.

2) It became clear in coding the importer that we really, really, need 
to move file operations to gfile. Using FileData->utf8_path usually 
works for normal file operations, but something wonky happens when 
dealing with the gphoto backend - the parse name (utf8_path) doesn't 
seem to work for accessing files on the backend. Using gfiles directly 
avoids this problem. So I've added gfile to the FileData structure, 
which had been the plan anyway. The importer makes heavy use of this 
approach.

- Mike