Last week I finally updated to Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Today I tried to download pictures off my camera. I'd previously set the default camera program to gThumb, but, in either Ubuntu or Gnome's infinite wisdom, the default camera handling program had been reset to F-Spot.
Now I'm sure that F-Spot is a nice program, full featured, and wonderful to use. However, it's not something I want to deal with on a Saturday morning when I'm getting ready to take Prom Pictures.
This is what I get for using software-for-the-masses, I know. (Somewhere, Penguin Pete is laughing at me.)
This leaves me with two options: I can learn how to make F-Spot do what I want it to do, or I can change the preferences for Gnome so that it knows to use gThumb when a camera's connected.
If you picked (1), you don't know me very well. I prefer to sticking-with-what-I-know until what-I-know becomes so unwieldy that I throw up by arms in disgust. Unfortunately, that happened a year or so ago when I decided that FVWM was just too ugly, and it was easier to start using Gnome than to really work at prettying up FVWM. There are lots of things about Gnome that I don't really know yet. In particular, how to change the default camera application. Yes, I'd done it once, but I'd forgotten to write it down.
That's what this blog is for: to write things down that I'd otherwise forget (except I forget to write it down). So after a brief web search, I found the answer: the way to set the camera options is not, as you might think, in Preferred Applications (gnome-default-applications-properties from the command line), but Removable Drives and Media Preferences (gnome-volume-properties). From there changing the default is easy.
Not that an upgrade should change my default.
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