On Tuesday 04 Jan 2005 22:27, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:50 -0800, Chuk Goodin wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 19:39:02 -0500, Roberto Sanchez > > > > > Downloading pictures from a digital camera is much easier than in > > > Windows. To start with, there is no need to install extra software. > > > You simply plug in your camera and if it is recognized (by a program > > > like gPhoto), it will Just Work(TM) and you will be able to copy > > > directly to and from the camera just as though it were any other mass > > > storage device attached to your machine. > > > > That's exactly how it works on my XP machine, actually. > > It's especially easy in GNOME 2.8. Don't know how easy/difficult > it is in KDE. > > In GNOME, you must install gnome-volume-manager gnome-media & gthumb > ((which will all pull in various other packages, like "hal" & > libgphoto2-2). > > The, when you plug in the camera's USB cable and turn it on, if > (gphoto+hotplug)?? can negotiate with it using PTP or usb-storage, > a dialog box pops up asking if you want to import images off the > camera.
With KDE it is the same as any external mass storage device. You plug it in and mount it. For cameras that aren't mass-storage devices, kde has digikam. You can set up an automounter and script it to run anything you want, but I don't like to do that. The other solution is to use media:// . Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
