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List:       gphoto
Subject:    [gphoto] gphoto2 wish list
From:       Jamie Zawinski <jwz () jwz ! org>
Date:       2002-08-22 20:35:50
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Hi, here's my laundry list of gphoto wishes...

 - Make the -q option actually cause it to be quiet.  As far as I can
   tell, -q doesn't do anything: it still spits out thousands of 
   characters while loading libraries, and then does animated progress
   bars for each file it downloads.

   I always run my shells under emacs, so using ^M to erase the current
   line doesn't work: it just makes a mess.  You see what you would see
   if the output had been redirected to a file.

   When -q is present, it should print no status except errors.
   Though it would be nice to be able to have it print exactly one
   line, a file name, for each file transferred successfully, and
   nothing else.

 - It would be nice to have a progress meter that doesn't require ^M
   to do its job -- like "wget" does with "progress = dot".

 - I'd like an option to downcase file names so that I get
   "dscn4091.jpg" instead of "DSCN4091.JPG".

 - I'd like an option to not overwrite files that already exist:
   if xxx.jpg already exists, don't pull a new copy from the camera.

 - If there is an error reading a file from the camera, don't leave
   the half-written file on the disk.  If a transfer doesn't complete,
   delete the truncated file.

 - I'd like an option to "move" files from the camera: that is:
   for each file: copy the file to disk, delete the file from camera.
   Right now, I have to copy the files, then delete them all, which
   is pessimal if the transfer is interrupted in the middle.

 - Can someone explain to me what I have to do on Linux to make the
   /proc/bus/usb/001/ files be globally read/writable, so that I don't
   always have to run gphoto as root?

   I've tried just chmodding them from rc.local, but that doesn't work:
   they seem to get reset to the default permissions whenever a USB
   device disconnects.

See, really I just want a USB version of what I was doing before:

   mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash -t vfat -o noauto,user,showexec,noexec &&
   mv -v /mnt/flash/dcim/100nikon/*jpg . &&
   umount /mnt/flash

I was completely happy with doing it that way, but apparently recent
kernel changes caused my CF readers (SanDisk ImageMate SDDR-31) to stop
being able to read either of my CF cards, on either of my machines, so
now the only way I have to get pictures out of my camera (Nikon CoolPix
990) is to use gphoto2 and the USB cable...

Red Hat 7.2 (2.4.9-13smp) and Red Hat 7.3 (2.4.18-3).

Thanks for listening!

-- 
Jamie Zawinski
jwz@jwz.org             http://www.jwz.org/
jwz@dnalounge.com       http://www.dnalounge.com/
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