On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:14 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/12/2010 01:13 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Good idea, apart from: > > > > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 12:39 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> > >> For Fedora-14 (to be released November 2010) it would be nice to have > >> a > >> gtk application for controlling various camera settings (brightness, > >> contrast, etc.) *and* a small applet which shows a webcam icon > >> next to the clock when a webcam is present. > > > > Having an applet showing up for each and every type of device that's > > plugged into your computer is a bad idea. > > > > I agree, but I have a number of reasons for thinking this way (note this > is not me saying but I'm going to go this way anyways, this is me asking > for better ways to achieve the below aims): > > 1. Many people don't know which app to use to test their webcam, one of > the things I would also like to add to the icon is "launch webcam viewer" > (this is a bit of a lame reason, if this were the only one, the icon could > die right away). A "webcam" preference would probably be good enough. > 2. One some laptops the webcam can be turned on / off with Fn + F##, and > there is no indicator whether it is on or off, the icon would serve as > such an indicator. You'd add a visual cue to gnome-settings-daemon, this is already what we do for a number of the multimedia keys. Feel free to file an upstream bug with some details about that key combination (whether it's hard wired, whether there's X key events happening when you do that and what it is, etc.). > 3. Some really cheap still cameras, so called dual mode cams, can also > functions as a webcam, but only when the gvfs gphoto2 share in nautilus > is not mounted, this icon is supposed to tell people that: > 1) A webcam was detected (even if the kernel driver at that moment was detached > by gvfsd-gphoto2) > and: > 2) Give them easy access to unmounting the gphoto2 share, making the camera > available to other apps. This is really a work-around for bugs in the way our framework works. Something like that would probably do: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606058 > So making the list myself I guess that for 2. we could make the icon optional, > defaulting to off (to be configurable from the capplet) and for 3. we could > opt to only show the icon be default for these types of cameras. > > Note 3 is a hard problem, because of the mix of userspace and kernelspace > drivers for the 2 functions and them both using the same usb interface > on the device (these devices usually only have one interface). > > > Having a well-made capplet (a dialogue for the control-center) would be > > a better fit. It should obviously handle hotplugging. > > Ack, that is a good idea. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
