Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment
by rwmj on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @06:47AM
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Shotwell is unmaintained. There are two other photo applications, but it's not clear which to use. In any case when you plug a camera or phone into a GNOME desktop what happens is the file manager application and any camera programs you have installed all compete to open the camera. In my wife's case the file manager always appears to "win" and Shotwell gives an error about not being able to find a camera. IOW basic functionality, broken for years.
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Re:Gnome is still the best Linux desktop environment
by squarefoot on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:19AM
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Rats... unmaintained. This is sad, really.
About your wife problem, it might be due to a daemon being instructed by the DM to automatically mount and open any newly inserted memory card or USB devices appearing as such.
I don't know about Gnome as I use XFCE, anyway on the removable media options there is one to auto mount removable media and I keep it unchecked. Their icons appear anyway on the desktop, but until I access them they don't get mounted so they remain accessible for other software.
I'm sure there is such an option on Gnome too.