Re: Preferences [Was: a whole lot of other things, too]



On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 08:22, Frédéric Crozat wrote:
> Le sam 27/04/2002 à 07:22, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> > 
> > Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:  
> > > Camera ---> What do you actually configure about a camera? mine has no
> > >             options of interest. minus 1
> > 
> > Oh, another thing I thought of - I bet much of the time the right
> > hardware UI is going to be "it just magically works" - certainly
> > there's no reason my camera shouldn't magically work. It works with
> > zero intervention on Windows XP. On Linux all that's missing is that
> > there's no way I know of to map from the USB device to the scsi device
> > you need to mount, and then we need an automounter that does the
> > mount. Nautilus will then put the camera on your desktop and you're
> > good to go.
> 
> There is a way to do that and we did it since Mandrake 8.1 :))
> 
> It is called devfs/hotplug... (yes, I know, devfs/devfsd was kind of
> broken but since we use it by default now, I can assure you it is become
> less and less broken..)
> 
> I've done an ugly hack to nautilus 1.0 to support this "dynamic device
> plugging" and when I'll port it for Nautilus 1.1/1.2, I intend to summit
> it for inclusion in official source..

Huh, that doesn't work for a parport scanner or a serial camera (not
that I care much... ;)

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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