improving digital camera detection

[Joe Shaw]

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 23:58 +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, ditto.  gnome-volume-manager does the right thing here, by looking
for a "dcim" directory.

> (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.)

Yeah, they've got the use cases down perfectly for this stuff.

Joe

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