I use a graphical frontend for gphoto2 called gtkam. This shows thumbnails of pictures on the camera and allows you to save all or a selection of the photos and also allows you to delete the images selectively or all at once.
Another possible method is to set up the camera in the kde control centre under peripherals.
To access it type camera:// in the konqueror location bar and bookmark it if it works.
Redhat uses a script /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to give users camera access. IIRC I managed
I had to do some mucking around with my usb.usermap (I think that's what it was called) to allow me to mount the camera as a regular user rather than as root. I think I found a howto somewhere on the net at the time. I have a kodak dx4900 camera
to transplant this script into gentoo to get it to work there.
Col.
