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Bug 677424 - Consider using gstreamer directly for webcam support
Consider using gstreamer directly for webcam support
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 677423
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: User Accounts
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-06-05 02:34 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2012-06-05 02:35 UTC
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2012-06-05 02:34:45 UTC 
With the following commit, Contacts gained webcam support for setting pictures of other people. Of course, System Settings has had webcam support for a while for setting the user's own picture.

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-contacts/commit/?id=a4ac6bf202c5a2dcce

Interestingly, the Contacts developers chose not to depend on cheese, but instead they used gstreamer for this support. Cheese isn't in GNOME Core so maybe the solution used by Contacts is better. I actually don't care which solution is chosen, but I do think System Settings and Contacts should handle this similar action the same way.

As of Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu explicitly doesn't build System Settings with webcam support since Cheese isn't in "main", but that could be changed especially if Contacts needed it too.

Thanks!
Comment 1 Jeremy Bicha 2012-06-05 02:35:39 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 677423 ***