[Bug 37694] Automatic photo import doesn't work with Canon PowerShot S30

[dierre]

Public bug reported:

Affects: gthumb (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed


Description:
I own a Canon PowerShot S30 camera, which has a USB connector. This
camera does not export a filesystem, so, in order to download your
pictures, you have to pass through libgphoto2.

With ubuntu 5.04, whenever I plug in the camera, a dialog appeared
asking me whether I wanted to import my pictures; if I answered yes,
then

gthumb --import-photos

was launched. Everything worked very smoothly.

Unfortunately ubuntu 5.10 does not have this behaviour anymore. If I
plug in the camera, nothing happens. I have to manually start gphoto2 or
gthumb, which is quite a nuisance, since with worked automagically with
the previous release. :-)

Please note that if I manually start gthumb --import-photos it works,
the problem is just in having it automatically started.

At first I thought it was a problem with my configuration; I was advised to look into the gnome config editor and check that under
/desktop/gnome/volume_manager 'autophoto' was enabled and 'autophoto_command' was set to 'gnome-volume-manager-gthumb %h'. I checked it and it was already set like that.

Thank you!
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Automatic photo import doesn't work with Canon PowerShot S30
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37694