[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Detecting N800 camera position

[From: Iñigo Illán Aranburu]

Hi!

Well, what I wanted to achieve can be done transparently with the
gconfv4l2src element than comes with n800. It handles the rotation of
the webcam transparently. Can I suggest specifying this on the maemo
camera API tutorial[1]. Also, Im interested on this malomo project. I
was thinking on doing some similar project and thus I have some ideas
and I would like to join to this effort.

[1] http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/howtos/howto_camera_api_bora.html

On jue, 2007-02-08 at 00:35 +0200, Janne Kataja wrote:
> Zeeshan Ali wrote:
> >  Fortunately, there are two very useful self-explainatory boolean
> > gconf keys for these things:
> > 
> > 1. /system/osso/af/camera-is-out
> > 2. /system/osso/af/camera-has-turned
> > 
> >  BTW, since it's gconf, you can set-up notification callback in your
> > applications for these events to, in case you need that. Hope this
> > helps!
> > 
> > P.S There is a D-Bus way to do the same thing as well but i think
> > gconf is much simpler to deal with as compared to D-Bus.
> 
> Thanks for the infos!
> 
> What would be needed to launch an application other than messenger when 
> a camera-is-out event takes place? On garage project malomo [1] we've 
> thought of making a control panel applet to choose between launching 
> messenger or camera application.
> 
> [1] https://garage.maemo.org/projects/malomo
> 
> 
> Janne