Hi, On 01/15/2010 11:33 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > 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. > True. >> 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.). > Good idea, bug filed: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607064 >> 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 > True, but I'm afraid this solution will have issues of itself, and explictly mounting / unmounting might be a better option. I'm worried things like the file-open dialog might cause some io on the gvfs share every time the dialog is used, leading to the driver being disconnected and re-connected, which is not good when some app, say skype has it open. Regards, Hans -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
