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

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:10:31AM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> Setting the camera capability on a volume that g-v-m detects photos on
> is telling us that a mass-storage device is a camera (or a flash card
> from a camera, which I think is what David is trying to remedy).
> 

Right!

> So, we know it is a mass storage device (HAL tells us it is a volume and
> g-v-m mounts it) and now g-v-m can say "oh, it is also a camera".
> 
> If it has a DCIM tree, I'd like to treat it like a camera, because I'd
> like for our camera solution (whatever it is - gphoto,
> gphoto+improvements, something else) to be able to handle any camera or
> flash card from a camera, like Mac OS X does today.  I don't want to
> special case proprietory-interface cameras that gphoto handles any
> differently from cameras (or flash cards) that are simply USB mass
> storage devices.
> 

Well, the only difference is that you would have to handle both capability
camera and capability content.photos (but probably not both for the same
device :-), hehe).

Cheers,
David