Basically, when hot-plugging a camera, it sometimes appears in Thunar as mounted & calls up Shotwell as required.
But more often than not, it appears in Thunar as unmounted & fails to call Shotwell.
I would be pleased to provide further details or run any tests.
This sounds like the problem I reported on Ubuntu Forum back in May 2013 using 12.10: ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=2146129
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Still the same today in 13.04.
Basically, when hot-plugging a camera, it sometimes appears in Thunar as mounted & calls up Shotwell as required.
But more often than not, it appears in Thunar as unmounted & fails to call Shotwell.
I would be pleased to provide further details or run any tests.