gphoto2 & KDE2.1.1

[omagnin]

Hi,

I'm running KDE2.1.1 ( Mandrake8.0 ) and I would like to use gphoto2
to download pictures from my digital camera ( Kodak DC3200 ).

I've seen that gphoto2 can be set as a kio_slave of Konqueror so that
you just have to type something like " gphoto:// ".

But I can't make it work! No way to find the new Control Center to
select camera type etc.. after the package gphoto2 is installed.

Do you have to recompile some code in KDE/Konqueror ?

Any kind of help would be appreciated !!

Thanks a lot

Olivier

[Jim Townsend]

Gphoto2 is a command line only application. There is no GUI.

To use gphoto2 as a kio_slave under KDE, you have to run the program 'Kamera'
which is an app developed by KDE. I can't help you on this one since I've
never taken the time to get any of the GUI front ends running on gphoto2. (I
did go looking for Kamera once.. couldn't find it).

There is a bit about it here: http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto2/

I use the command line interface in a terminal to do downloading.. It's good
for a few pictures here and there, but there is no way gphoto can beat any
Windows software that comes bundled with any digital camera. Gphoto2, and the
GUI front ends are still very much in the development phase.

When I have to download more than a few pics from my Canon S100, I boot to
Windows.. Until there's decent USB digital camera software available, I'll
have to keep my Windows partition.

[Derek Morr]

> When I have to download more than a few pics from my Canon S100, I boot to
> Windows.. Until there's decent USB digital camera software available, I'll
> have to keep my Windows partition.

I've used gtKam without any difficulties (although I usually use a
USB CF reader). It works very similarly to the old gphoto1 UI.

-derek

From http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto2

gtKam is in the gPhoto Sourceforge CVS.

# cvs -d :pserver:anon...@cvs.gphoto.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gphoto login
(press enter when prompted for a password)
# cvs -d :pserver:anon...@cvs.gphoto.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gphoto -z3 co
gtkam

Then, compile/install it:

# cd gtkam
# ./autogen
# make
(become root)
# make install
# cd ..

And run it at the prompt by typing in "gtkam"