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Summary
Add support for MTP (Media Transport Protocol) needed to connect smartphones and tablets devices to your computer and then copy files from/to computer to/from devices. This feature is needed because a lot of smartphones and tablets do not have the old USB Mass Storage protocol support like Android devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usb_mass_storage
Owner
- Name: Yannick
- Email: yleny at laposte dot net
Resources
- Packager: a full and ready and tested package is available at https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7638, you only need to add it in mageia svn and submit it at build system
Current status
- Targeted release: Mageia 3
- Last updated: 2012/06/13
- Percentage of completion: 50 % because .spec file, source and scripts for mageia are available
Should be installed as default or suggested/required by something ? https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11394
Detailed Description
Why it would be good for Mageia to include it
Mageia will one or two of all linux distribution that will support the PTP protocol. Mageia users with this feature will be happy to have a full plug'n play device with their (android) smartphones and tablets.
Test case
Anything useful for QA and all testers to help debugging during all development cycle
Software / Packages Dependencies
For me, it's already working since april thanks to libmtp 1.1.6 and gvfs 1.17 (for GNOME).
What could disrupt development of this new feature
Planning
Contingency
Release Notes
Documentation
Since Mageia 4 it seems to work as root only on my device (Asus Memopad 10 HD). This seems to happen, because a rule for the device seems to be missing.
Take a look here for fix but modify the /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libmtp.rules file instead of /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules :
When I did add the device to the .rules file and launched udevadm control --reload as root it worked as normal user as well. KDE on my system detected the device correctly on plugging it in.
Many devices should work though.
See bugs Mageia 2 have a buggy FUSE file-system tool that supports MTP devices and no automount for them / add jmtpfs in mageia repositories (spec file and udev rules+scripts provided) in bugzilla.
