My camera, autodetection and GThumb

GL1800 · 02-08-2006, 08:03 AM

OK, this all works, beautifully. When the camera is plugged in, I get a dialog, that already knows there are pix on the camera. When I click to unload them, it brings up GThumb, which does a fine job. However, I would be happier if it brought up Digikam. How do I do that? Where is all this being done?

satinet · 02-08-2006, 08:31 AM

if you are using gnome you can set how it handles these things. not sure how, but root around in the menus....

GL1800 · 02-08-2006, 08:36 AM

I think you are right. Some arcane command with gconftoo2l or one of those would probably do the job. But, I have no idea where to get at that. Thanks, though, somebody will know how to do it.

Matir · 02-08-2006, 08:58 AM

If you are using gnome (at least 2.10 and higher have this), select "Removable Drives and Media" from the Preferences Menu (within the Desktop menu). There is an option there to specify which command to run on connecting a digital camera.

GL1800 · 02-08-2006, 09:16 AM

Yes, that's right. I can set digicam there, but, when i do, it seems that digikam has no option to do the work. Gthumb allows for --import-photos and digikam I cannot find an option that would do that. So it just dies. Maybe I am just stuck with gthumb, and if so, I can live with it. Or, do you know anything else we could try?
Thanks

GL1800 · 02-08-2006, 09:26 AM

Oh, wait. It's that darn %h at the end. What does that do? If I leave that out, digikam starts up fine. It doesn't automatically begin the download, but, hey, how much trouble is clicking the button?

Matir · 02-08-2006, 10:22 AM

I believe %h passes a device name (or is it mountpoint) to the program.

GL1800 · 02-08-2006, 01:44 PM

OK, and ONE more thing and we'll leave this. What brings up that dialog, about the camera has pix in it, do you want to inport them now? How does it know? Where is that software, and what is it?