improving digital camera detection

[Pozsar Balazs]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:15:41PM -0500, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 17:01 -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> > That said, support in libgphoto2 would be nice so that various photo
> > management programs don't have to roll their own.
> 
> 
> The problem is that the camera list is getting longer everyday, and that
> this conflicts with hard drives, USB keys, etc. that really look the
> same as there is no way to tell if what kind of storage it is....


Please also note that treating for example a CF card in a card reader as 
a "camera" is not that bad idea. Why? Because it well may contain photos 
waiting to be imported to the computer.

Do not misunderstand me: I think HAL should NOT mark card readers and 
such as cameras. It should mark cameras, and only cameras as a camera.
But bear in mind that not only cameras can have photos to be 
imported/viewed/etc.

(And for example, Mac OS X handles CF card perfectly, if I insert a card 
with photos on it, it starts iphoto and I can import photos from it with 
a single click.)



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pozsy
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