digital camera preference should be a different applet

Bug #17964 reported by Hubert Figuiere
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gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

See GNOME bug 306646 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306646

Basically GNOME maintainer for this package does not want that. I thought Ubuntu
might want to push that UI idea as it seems to be more user friendly.

Patch is there: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=47464&action=view

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

To be honest I'm not entirely convinced about maintaining such an intrusive
patch only in Ubuntu. Ubuntu's patch directory is already bigger than the
upstream code because upstream ignores our patches, and such a big one would
make it much worse.

Also, rather than ripping apart gnome-volume-properties entirely, wouldn't an
enhanced menu entry description do the same? At least I think that there is not
such a big difference between an volume for arbitrary files and a digital
camera, which is more or less a storage device for pictures (from the
perspective of a PC at least :-) ).

I will consider the patch if upstream at least considers to adopt it, though.

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Hubert Figuiere (hub) wrote :

While I completely agree on the patch policy, it make sense, I still find that
that UI change is needed. As a gphoto2 maintainer, I can tell you that a lot of
user ask us to support USB Mass Storage in gphoto2 because it is a camera. So
whatever the manufacturer decided to implement, they still don't think a camera
is a removable device, and this is somewhat right. The additionnal desktop entry
make things worse.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Do you still consider this relevant? Nowadays, g-v-m's properties are organized in tabs, and 'Camera' is one of them. Personally I think that's quite nice now.

Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Hubert Figuiere (hub) wrote :

The current UI is way better. I'm not sure I agree 100% with it, but it went in the right direction making this bug obsolete.

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Hubert Figuiere (hub) wrote :

Rejecting as any change as been do upstream

Changed in gnome-volume-manager:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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