The Grumpy Editor plugs in his camera [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor plugs in his camera

Posted Feb 14, 2005 22:56 UTC (Mon) by cantsin (subscriber, #4420)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor plugs in his camera

The article could also mention that

all libgphoto2 functionality can be accessed via the commandline tool "gphoto2". In many cases, using "gphoto2 --get-all-files" or a custom script (which can, for example, do automatic corrections on images via ImageMagick/convert) is more efficient than using one of the GUI tools built on top of libgphoto2
for graphical management of photos on a camera, existing GUI file managers like konqueror, nautilus and rox often are superior. All of them offer inline preview of images and can of course access cameras that speak the USB mass storage protocol; konqueror in addition can talk to libgphoto2 devices via the "camera://" URI.

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The Grumpy Editor plugs in his camera

Posted Feb 15, 2005 4:38 UTC (Tue) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]

Agreed; I've set up family's machines so then they can go manage the pics using nautilus.hey plug in the camera, get an indicator when the command line app is done transferring them to an appropriatly tiemstamped directory, and
then they can go manage the pics using nautilus. This turned out to be much easier to teach than yet another (and IIRC sometimes unstable) GUI application. Only way to improve on it really would be a graphical progress indicator.

The Grumpy Editor plugs in his camera

Posted Feb 15, 2005 8:46 UTC (Tue) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]

Take a look at zenity then -- it provides you with a way to display a gtk2 progress bar gui from the command line or a script.