Bug 217900

Summary: The camera model chooser dialog should contain a search field
Product: [Unmaintained] kio Reporter: Panagiotis Papadopoulos <pano9000>
Component: kameraAssignee: Marcus Meissner <marcus>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2009-12-08 18:57:49 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The camera chooser dialog should contain a search field, which would be a huge improvement.
Currently you have to scroll through the huge list manually in order to find your camera model, which can be a pain :-P

Thanks!
Comment 1 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2009-12-08 19:10:39 UTC 
Sorry I didn't mention that I am talking about the kcmkamera module :-)
Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2009-12-08 22:12:08 UTC 
excuse me, but which camera do you look for?

only serial cameras need to be looked up,
the usb cameras are all autodetected.
Comment 3 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2009-12-12 12:57:36 UTC 
Oh ok, I opened the kamera kcm module while my USB camera was not attached, so thats why I thought it would be a good idea to have a search field in that dialog. Imagine someone with a serial camera having to go through the whole list (which also contains USB camera which, as you said are detected automatically)
Comment 4 null 2018-08-05 22:41:35 UTC 
> camera chooser dialog should contain a search field
Regardless of autodetection, adding a search field might still make sense from a UI perspective. Of course separating out serial cameras might also be an option.

See also Bug 74553, which tracks improving grouping.