RFC: gtk v4l2 (webcam) control panel app + applet

[Fabian Deutsch]

Hello,

Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2010, 12:39 +0100 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> For Fedora-14 (to be released November 2010) it would be nice to have
> a
> gtk application for controlling various camera settings (brightness,
> contrast, etc.) *and* a small applet which shows a webcam icon
> next to the clock when a webcam is present.

Very nice idea, also providing it as a capplet seems to make sense.

> There already is an existing graphical v4l2 control panel application
> (v4l2ucp), which can be used to model the gtk application after. This
> application is not suitable as it is using the QT GUI toolkit, which
> does not integrate well into the default Fedora desktop.

Looking at v4l2ucp it does not seem to be that hard.
So might this be a potential GSOC project?
Btw.: ekiga (http://www.ekiga.org) is also tinkering around with v4l to
adjust brightness and stuff.

- fabian