Re: digiKam dead, cannot import from camera

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
...
> Yikes. Those gnomies do love complexity. I know why our ways parted
> long ago.

  yes, among the many other assumptions.  i'm afraid though
that some of these things creep into MATE in time.  :(


> You might try disabling gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service and see
> what changes (possibly you can't access the camera at all, but who
> knows).

  disabling or masking.  i do that along with a few other
things that i don't use or care about.


> In any case put pebbles along the way so you can find your way back.
>
> Perhaps someone with more clue chimes in.
>
> Me? I just tell the camera to present a file system, mount it (yes,
> manually) on /mnt and do a rsync. It's so much easier than all this
> ritual dances that it's not even funny.

  yes.  someone else downthread says to remove the gphoto2 
package but that is useful, i just don't want it automatically
engaged until i specifically ask for it.


  songbird