Hi, Lutz Müller <urc8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Now that the capture plugin works, people would like to be able to > download pictures from their cameras directly from within gimp. However, > that is not that easy. > > Can it be that there is no possibility to register something like > "camera:/folder/my_file.jpg" (like "http://...";)? it should work using the gimp_register_magic_load_handler() call. You can specify prefixes there that will be matched against the filename. > Even if above were possible, it seems that it would not result in > thumbnails, folder and file listings (gtk-file-selection is too limited > for that - no hooks for file/folder listings), another possibility would > be to write a file opening dialog for files on digital camera. But where > do I hook that up? There is no "/File/Open" submenu where I could put > the menuitem in. That functionality doesn't fit into "/File/Acquire". I'd suggest to install a plug-in that opens a file/folder view of the camera in /File/Acquire. > I suppose there are no plans to make gimp use gnome-vfs (a gphoto2 > plugin for gnome-vfs already exists). Have you thought about writing > something like gimp-vfs where I could write a gphoto2 plugin for? we'd really like to (optionally) support gnome-vfs for gimp-1.4. Salut, Sven
