Comment 2 for bug 1155794

@Jim, your reasoning on multiple cameras is a good one against having a keyboard shortcut. Perhaps a devices menu that is populated with connected devices allowing you to select one? In general, getting some other access besides merely selecting the item in the sidebar via mouse click would be a welcome addition.

As mentioned, specifically we've done some work with shotwell in an attempt to have some automated tests for it using autopilot. These tests utilize umockdev to create a fake camera device with photos to help test shotwell's features. The trouble lies in being able to select the 'camera' device in an automated way because of how introspection works with gtk.

From a user perspective, I also find the sidebar a bit unintuitive at times because I don't get a context menu via right click (but maybe that's just me :- ))