Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Debian stable Packages As Gphoto2 supports every release more and more camera's, the list in the Kamera module in KControl gets bigger and bigger. The disadvantage of this is that people will miss there model when in fact it is in the list. It's also slow to find the camera you have. My proposal: Make a sort of wizard for adding camera's. This wizard should be very consistent with the wizard of kdeprint (for usability reasons). So, first a welcome step in the wizard, then a select model step, after this a driver selecting step, and at the end a step to test the camera. The second step should be also splitted in 2 parts as in the kdeprint wizard: in the left people can select the vendor of their camera, and in the right they can select the specific model. In the step after this people get a list of drivers that can be used for this camera (e.g. some camera's also supports PTP) and people also can get information about wich driver is the best to use (like also possible in kdeprint).
i am planning a different approach. Almost all cameras are USB today and can be easily autodetected. So: - Drop all autodetectable cameras from the Listview and just keep the non-USB ones. (Also we cannot easily parse Vendor/Product pairs currently, since libgphoto2 just returns 1 string.)
> Almost all cameras are USB today and can be easily autodetected. Even a better idea :) > So: > - Drop all autodetectable cameras from the Listview and just keep > the non-USB ones. In that case I like a button to hide/unhide the normally autodetectable cameras too. This for the situations when something went wrong with the autodetection. > (Also we cannot easily parse Vendor/Product pairs currently, since > libgphoto2 just returns 1 string.) Maybe the KDE project can do a feature request at the gphoto project for this? :)
It has some basic support for this, using ":" as delimiter. I once tried to get vendor/product splitting into libgphoto2, but this API change was not integrated :/
As of v18.07.90, there's still only a single (ungrouped) list when adding a camera. Adding a search field is tracked in Bug 217900.