Getting digikam to autoopen when the camera is connected

[reuben firmin-3]

When I connect the camera in KDE, a box pops up asking me if I wish to open in a new window, or do nothing. There is a configure button, and it appears that I could add an "Open In Digikam" option for the camera; however, the interface is either confusing or broken. Has anybody succesfully managed to configure this so that it behaves as I describe? If so can you give a brief step by step?

Thanks
Reuben

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[Gilles Caulier-2]

Le Samedi 17 Juin 2006 21:59, reuben firmin a écrit :
> When I connect the camera in KDE, a box pops up asking me if I wish to open
> in a new window, or do nothing. There is a configure button, and it appears
> that I could add an "Open In Digikam" option for the camera; however, the
> interface is either confusing or broken. Has anybody succesfully managed to
> configure this so that it behaves as I describe? If so can you give a brief
> step by step?
>

I suspect that you use digiKam 0.8.x under KDE 3.5.x. Right ?

If yes, you have right. the interface is unfinalized into 0.8.x
implementation, but have been recenlty finalized by Marcel into svn trunk
(next 0.9.0 release).

The code need to be tested indeep... In my computer all work fine, but of
course we need more feedback about this feature.

Regards

Gilles Caulier

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> When I connect the camera in KDE, a box pops up asking me if I wish to open
> in a new window, or do nothing. There is a configure button, and it appears
> that I could add an "Open In Digikam" option for the camera; however, the
> interface is either confusing or broken. Has anybody succesfully managed to
> configure this so that it behaves as I describe? If so can you give a brief
> step by step?

With current SVN version, as Gilles already said, better support has been
added (written by Tom Albers I think)
In the box that pops up in KDE 3.5, you will find another entry  "Open and
download with digikam" which starts digikam or activates a running digikam
application. This works for USB mass storage devices and should work for
gphoto cameras as well. Any testing, especially for gphoto cameras, is needed
and appreciated.

Marcel

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> Thanks
> Reuben
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[Christoph Schmid-3]

Hio. I tried this feature with my Canon Powershot G6. The dialog
appeared, but "Open and download with digikam" didn't work. I had to
make a new kde action for the camera with the following parameter line:

digikam --detect-camera --caption "%u"

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Christoph
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