Bug 446706

Summary: Fedora thinks iPod Touch is a camera
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steven Garrity <steven>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: mclasen, nyman.jonas, pertusus
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Screenshot of the phantom iPod camera none

Description Steven Garrity 2008-05-15 18:30:09 UTC 
Description of problem:
Fedora seems to link the iPod Touch is a camera, according to the desktop icon
at least.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Using fresh install of Fedora 9

How reproducible: always.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plugin iPod Touch
2. See camera icon appear on desktop
3. Chuckle?
  
Expected results:
Tango Extras has pretty hardware icons for these. I understand the Apple stuff
is proprietary, but I would think we could at least identify the hardware.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Steven Garrity 2008-05-15 18:30:09 UTC 
Created attachment 305516 [details]
Screenshot of the phantom iPod camera
Comment 2 Jonas Nyman 2008-05-15 19:11:53 UTC 
Confirmed. Then it is possible to "open" the ipod with an empty window as the
sole result. And Fedora asks if I want to import the photos from the camera,
which is of course nonsense.
Comment 3 David Zeuthen 2008-05-27 16:07:02 UTC 
What's the output of

 gvfs-ls gphoto2://[usb:X,Y]/

(Get the exact URI from this command: gvfs-mount -l)

I'm pretty sure there's a DCIM folder in the root.. which would indicate it's
using the DCF system which is why we pick it up as a camera.
Comment 4 Steven Garrity 2008-05-27 16:15:20 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> What's the output of gvfs-ls gphoto2://[usb:X,Y]/
> I'm pretty sure there's a DCIM folder in the root.. which would indicate it's
> using the DCF system which is why we pick it up as a camera.

gvfs-ls gphoto2://[usb:001,009]/ returns nothing - also, when I plug it in,
Nautilus opens the folder and it's empty. I don't have any photos stored on the
iPod, if that makes a difference.
Comment 5 David Zeuthen 2008-05-27 16:41:12 UTC 
Right, I just checked the Apple website and there's no built-in camera like on
the iPhone. The reason we pick it up and display it as a camera is because of
the fact that it advertises itself as a PTP device.

My guess is that the iPod Touch is pretty useless as a USB device (unless you're
running OS X or Windows)... until someone manages to reverse engineer the
mechanism used for updating the music player bits. When that happens we have
ways of tagging the device as a music player.

I'm not sure there's a bug here; the device claims to be a PTP device and we
correctly identify it as such. IOW, complain to the vendor of the device. I'm
closing this bug.