pop-up: No image import from usb media but display
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Martin Pitt | ||
libgphoto2 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Anytime you plug a usb mass storage media to you box a small pop-up appears suggesting to ignore images on the medium or to import them. Choosing ignore works perfectly ;-).
But choosing "import" open to gthumb with the new medium openend. This is nice for displaying images (as a third option "display" in the pop-up could suggest) but bad for importing images.
Here ghtumb with its import option ( --import-photos) would be the far better choice: Let the user choose which images to import and to which destination. Same procedure as with any digital camera.
The lates gthumb automagically detects images on usb mass storage devices.
My suggestion in short:
The pop-up appearing whenever a usb mass storage medium is mounted should offer three options:
1. Ignore
2. Display images - gthumb showing thumbs
3. Import - gthumb --import-photos - the same dialog that appears when a digicam is connected
Changed in gthumb: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in libgphoto2: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in gthumb: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in libgphoto2: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
libgphoto2 > 2.2.1 now treats usb mass storage gizmos like digital cameras, if they have a "DCIM" directory. (A flash card from a camera will have a "DCIM" directory, as per the DCF spec. A USB hard drive with photos would probably not have a "DCIM" directory.) You can "import" from DCF/DCIM folders now.
Earlier versions of libgphoto2 could not do this, so gnome-volume- manager launched gthumb in folder view instead. This approach is inconvenient for people who use flash card readers. (Like me: my Digital Rebel has a USB1 port, which is SLOW. So I use a USB2 card reader.)
I would suggest that you update the gnome-volume- manager gthumb script to use "gthumb --import-photos" if a "DCIM" directory is found on the mounted device.
- Mike (a gThumb developer)