[Digikam-users] Camera import - Olympus C-460 - should be easier than this

[Christoph Bergemann]

Hi,

> Digikam recognises and imports pictures without any hassle at all from
> my new[ish] Fuji S8000FD but getting pictures from my older Olympus
> C-460 is a bit more hassle and I'm wondering if I'm missing something.
in fact digikam uses libgphoto2 to connect to the camera and does not have its 
own library. 


> To get pictures from the C-460 I have to manually mount the USB mass
> storage device that appears when the camera is plugged in. As I have
> to inspect /var/log/messages to find the device name and I have to do
> this as root this is hardly 'user friendly'.  (This is on Fedora 8 by
> the way).
Automounting is usually done via HAL and DBUS but it is strange that your 
system doesn't do this. Even in Gentoo this worked rather out of the box.

Regards.
Christoph