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

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:41 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:

> So it would be nice to reserve the capability 'camera' to devices that
> actually resembles the physical devices with a lens and so on.

Hmm, I'm not so sure about this.  This comes back to the whole "what is
it" versus "what can it do" argument.  The basic function of plugging in
a camera is, in my experience, to copy the photos off of it.  Whether
that's by plugging the camera in directly or using a card reader, I
think the experience is pretty much the same.  If there were some extra
functionality provided by these proprietary interfaces then it makes
sense to me to add more capabilities for those, but the difference seems
largely semantic to me.

Joe