Re: [Utopia] [patch] gvm property name changes

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:54:06AM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > When detecting photos on a volume we add the capability 'camera'. This
> > is nice, but I think this capability name should be reserved for cameras
> > that libgphoto can handle so I've renamed the capability to
> > 'content.photos' - makes sense?
> 
> Hm, I dunno.  What if gphoto adds support for mass storage (I strongly
> want it to)?  It actually has it today, gphoto has some feature could
> directory mode (I think?) that can slurp up trees of photos doing normal
> file I/O.  I also do not like the idea of tying a HAL capability to the
> abilities of gphoto, which is a policy decision.
> 
> I'm not strongly opinionated on this, though.  Your thouhgts?  Others
> thoughts?
> 

My point was to reserve the capability 'camera' to bus devices that
actually represent hardware objects with a lens, e.g. digital cameras.
Which makes it a lot easier to draw a meaningful device-tree when it
comes to e.g. selecting icons.

Cheers,
David