Re: the one true gphoto method?

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

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > However, some distros are shipping with the gvfs backend for gphoto, 
> > > which means that gio users can share a camera, but old apps using 
> > > libgphoto2 are broken because the gvfs backend locks them out.
>
> I also want to mention that it seems like your initial problem was that
> you wanted to get the thumbnails from the camera via libgphoto. In
> current versions of gvfs you can get these directly by asking for the
> G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_PREVIEW_ICON attribute (its a GIcon that you can use
> with e.g. gtk_image_set_from_gicon).

What if the camera (or card reader) mounts as USB mass storage under 
/media, and thus doesn't use the gphoto backend?

ligphoto could still provide a thumbnail/preview for that, same as a PTP 
camera. However, if we drop libgphoto entirely and migrate to gfile 
instead, I think we lose that ability, and we'd have to generate a 
thumbnail ourselves. Am I right?

This is in the context of migrating the gthumb importer.

- Mike