GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306646
digital camera option should be in a separate panel
Last modified: 2006-11-02 18:22:29 UTC
digital camera option should be in a separate panel. It is confusing to have that option in a control panel labelled "Removable Drives and Media" There should be a control panel named "Digital Camera" Other information:
Created attachment 47410 [details] [review] patch to implement the change Attached is a patch that implements a gnome-camera-properties CApplet, against CVS. Please let me know what you think. I have CVS access so I can commit it, but I want to make sure it is OK before.
Hubert, looks good to me. Fejj, whatcha think, duder?
well, the patch looks fine... I'm just wondering if it really makes sense to split it into 2 programs. I do agree with Hubert that users won't necessarily associate digital cameras with "removable drives and media", but what if instead we did something more like the following solution: create another .desktop file (or whatever is needed to add another icon thingy in the control panel) for Cameras and made that run `gnome-volume-properties --page=camera` or some such type command-line option that would open the properties dialog to a particular page? could this work? otherwise I see this turning into gnome-ipod-properties, gnome-cellphone-properties, gnome-volume-properties, gnome-cd-and-dvd-properties, gnome-whatsit-properties, etc I think there's already discussion (here at Novell at least) about changing the name of g-v-m to something more appropriate (at least that's the feeling I got talking to JP and from that desktop summit a month or so back), so perhaps a new name can also be chosen such that it would be more intuitive to suers (but even if not, I think the command-line option would be cool?) you guys have any thoughts on that solution?
Ugh, I thought you were making it another tab. Why not just rename the capplet and/or the tab? Worse case, make it another tab, but I'd prefer to not make additional capplets.
I somewhat thought about doing it, one binary and either trick with ARGV[0] or pass an argument. I'll rework the patch to do that and post a new one.
Created attachment 47464 [details] [review] reworked patch This new patch implement it with a --page= command line argument. It also keep compatibility by providing volume-properties if no argument is passed. Let me know if I can commit it. Thx
what Rob and I meant was that we want it to be the same program with all user interface elements visible, but just flip to the requested properties notebook tab. anyways, maybe what we should do is just ask Anna to try to come up with a good solution for us.
I somewhat don't agree. It is confusing for a user to have to open "Removable disk" to set the preferences for action when you connect a camera to the PC. Actually one use case missing is "what to do if we insert a picture CD", as they are following the DCImage standard. Looks at MacOS X. On 10.2, there is a control panel for digital cameras. For 10.3 they moved it to Image Capture, but I don't agree. And in the "CD & DVD" control panel, there is the action for picture CD. Not that MacOS X is the best UI ever, but they have some good ideas, and that is what I was trying to push with my patch. Nevermind, I'll push that into Ubuntu and we'll see have it comes out from a user point of view...
Actually I start to see the point after talking with fejj. The current solution I implement is still better than nothing and would do the transition between current g-v-m and more general purpose "Device" capplet.
if you don't rewrite the applet for the GNOME 2.12 feature freeze, please at least consider having this patch
Not sure if this is relevant of not, but when I plug in my camera, it just looks like a USB drive and is opened as such. Same goes for my mp3player. Haven't tested lately, but in the past when I've tried to use the "import photos" dialog provided in gphoto, I had no luck finding the camera. Anyway, IMO, it's good behavior for these devices to just look like flash drives to computers since that simplifies everything. That said, it's confusing when there's a "get my pictures" or "get my music" button that doesn't get you picturse/music/etc. because they look like a flash drive. So whatever these do, if there's a separate "camera" or whatever button, make sure it still sees devices that look like flash drives, because of course your average user won't know the difference. So this is somewhat uninformed, but H.F. requested comments, so there's my 2 c.
The current version completely change how this is handled making this bug report obsolete. Closing as OBSOLETE