improving digital camera detection

[Pozsar Balazs]

Hello all,

I was playing around with hal+gnome-volume-manager+gthumb, and I found 
the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/20freedesktop/sony_dsc.fdi, which I think, 
could be highly improved.

In the end, I created three new .fdi file which I think worth applying 
into the default hal config.

ptp.fdi:
  If an USB device's interface indicates that it is an PTP device, then 
  it is a camera.

massstorage.fdi:
  This is a trickier one. If the USB device's interface indicates it is 
  a Mass Storage device, then we set the camera.access_method key to 
  "storage", BUT we do not set the info.capabilities or info.category.
  This way, if the device is marked as a camera somewhere else, it will 
  have the proper camera.access_method key/value pair.

libgphoto2.fdi
  This is a bit ugly.
  Basically, it is a collection of the usb id's of various digital 
  cameras known by libghoto-2.1.5. (It is though a much better start, 
  than the single sony_dsc.fdi...)
  I have created the file using a little script, which I have also 
  encapsulated in the xml as a comment for later reference, so it won't 
  get lost.


Please consider using these files, and/or comment on them.


-- 
pozsy
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