Always showing "Open Shotwell" button for SD Card storage can be harmful
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
In bug #771757, the following is reported:
"Using an Android device, Shotwell scans the entire directory for pictures. It also picks up pictures used by apps. Whereas it should only pick up pictures taken by the camera and sent by bluetooth.
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As it is right now, Shotwell can pick up and remove pictures from the device which damage or make unusable applications on the phone. Requiring a reinstall of the application."
Nautilus always shows the "Open Shotwell" button for such storage. Currently this leads to the problem because of Shotwell's behavior.
However, even when this is fixed in gPhoto/Shotwell, the question remains whether it is the right choice for Nautilus to assume that any inserted SD Card containing images must be suitable for viewing/including in Shotwell. As we can see from bug #771757, this is increasingly questionable with the increase of Android devices and similar.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.1.92-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 27 07:50:25 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64+mac (20110422)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-18 (39 days ago)
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Thank you for your bug report, do you have a better suggestion for guessing if a device containing photos should offer the option to run the photo viewer or not?
The issue there is really a bug in other part of the stack including android itself, it seems weird to try to workaround it in nautilus.
Note that nautilus doesn't do any action by default, it just expose a launcher than you could access easily by other ways, hidding it would just workaround the issue