webcam integration
Par Benoît Dejean le lundi, 12 mars 2007, 12:30 - GNOME - Lien permanent
I saw my cousin on Sunday. He showed me his shiny new MacBook. It is his first own computer so he is very proud of it and really enjoys the builtin webcam.
He wanted to take a photo of me : he told me to seat in front of the laptop, he then launched photo booth and took 2 shots. This application is really nice, perfect UI : single button and a countdown. Do we have anything like that ?
Then he added me to his contact list : he entered my email and as he also wanted to have my picture in, he just clicked to launch a mini photo-booth and take a photo. This is a great feature we should have in evolution.
Webcam never seemed so easy.
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Expect something quite soon, i programmed some kind of photo booth clone with gstreamer and gtk to be used in a public fair. I expect to release a first version next weekend when it survived the crowd test
Look at this link as kikdonk already said.
http://raphael.slinckx.net/blog/200...
And the relevant bugzilla entry
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug....
This evolution bug is the first step, but i was talking about webcam integration into evolution. You don't want extra storage for contact photo : you only want to add the photo. So yes, evolution needs to display the photo, but it also has to store it. And to add a photo, you should either be able to select it from a file or directly use the webcam.