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Bug 520120 - Export metadata for MTP devices
Export metadata for MTP devices
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: gphoto backend
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 520121
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-03 15:59 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2018-09-21 16:18 UTC
See Also:
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Description Bastien Nocera 2008-03-03 15:59:55 UTC 
Here's a few features that Rhythmbox would need to use the gphoto2 gvfs backend.

- Export the device's serial number through G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ID_FILESYSTEM
- Allow get/set of the file metadata through the xattr namespace
Comment 1 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2008-03-03 16:38:40 UTC 
There's probably a few other things we want like battery level; could also just be an attribute e.g. G_FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVICE_BATTERY_LEVEL. Might be useful on obex:// too. I don't know. Alex is probably not going to like it.

I wonder how hard this is to implement. Though libgphoto2 has a way of exporting the port so I think, if we want, we can directly send PTP/MTP commands. I don't know.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2008-03-03 16:57:47 UTC 
I talked to _Marcus_ on #gphoto and I was told there was already exported API to get/set metadata on objects using gphoto2.
Comment 3 David Zeuthen (not reading bugmail) 2008-03-03 17:04:14 UTC 
ah, so this should be easy to add
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2009-03-10 14:04:00 UTC 
Please don't use "standard" namespaces like xattr for things that are not identical to extended attributes. Just make your own namespace.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-09-21 16:18:45 UTC 
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