[Digikam-devel] [Bug 107719] Autodetect camera on startup

[Marcel Wiesweg]

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------- Additional Comments From marcel.wiesweg gmx de  2007-08-28 19:36 -------
This is the current situation with KDE4 Solid support:

1) Detecting USB mass storage devices and card readers is implemented
2) Actually Kevin Ottens had the same suggestion as this bug report: Make camera detection fully dynamic. After some discussion, and me fighting with the gphoto2 API, there is now a method added in Solid which will allow us to autodetect gphoto2 cameras and call use them with gphoto2. (Due to inconsistencies in the gphoto2 API, this will not be perfect, but there is no way to distinguish two generic PTP cameras plugged in at the same time with gphoto2)
This support waits to be implemented (by me)
3) At least for serial port cameras, the permanent "Add camera manually" will stay. We need to find a way to store last-access information for all other cameras.
4) According to Kevin, the autostarting of apps on plugging of new hardware will be similar to the KDE3 way, but is not ready yet.