FUSE should support PTP, MTP and others

[Dan Dart]

I think we ought to have a FUSE module for mounting PTP, MTP and others so we can view these in the browser rather than having software to transfer our files. (eg gphoto).

E.g.
iPod
Creative Zen

[Sean Fitzpatrick (sean-fitzpatrick)]

Isn't that what mtpfs does? I had it somewhat working on Jaunty with a notoriously uncooperative Philips Gogear 1630 (it's a bit of a pain but hey, it was only $30...) Actually I was somewhat happy to notice that with the update to libmtp 0.3.7 in Karmic, and some other sort of magic that I don't understand, my MTP device now automounts smoothly in just a few seconds (it used to take over a minute, and I had to disable the automount introduced in Jaunty) and shows up as a file system in Nautilus - so cheers to whoever figured that out!
It's not quite perfect, unfortunately: while I was able to copy files with ease, the mp3 player didn't detect the files as music tracks; perhaps the metadata was missing? So long story short, I still have to add music using Rhythmbox or Amarok 1.4, but there's no problem moving files back and forth in Nautilus - and my device is *really* problematic!

[Mikael Ståldal (mikaelstaldal)]

Install the gphotofs package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I think this bug is related to bug #903422?