I think digikam will anyhow index/scan newly detected photos under the trees that are configured for photo collections. And having the default photo app (like e-mail, web-browser…) would be great, as importer could then auto-start the chosen application (gwenview, digikam…).

And BTW: great work on gwenview – I really like your balance between simplicity and powerfullness of the application. Most of the stuff you do, feels just enough for “typical user” (like my father…).

For example there could be a “Always open this device with this application” checkbox at the bottom of the device importer popup. User could then manage associations via the widget settings. What do you think of this, Aaron?

It depends on libgwenview (which is an internal library) but it could run without the gwenview binary. The only thing to change would be not hardcoding the fact that it starts Gwenview at the end. I can do this if there is enough demand for it.

In the case of an SD card directly slotted in, one can start the important from gwenview or digikam directly.

Someone could also work on Solid’s actions being slightly more intelligent by being able to look at what’s on a device or remembering specific volume labels (so when you manually import into gwenview once, it would record the label of that volume and prompt to do the same thing automatically next time you plug it in; aka “trainging”).

That would be the “right” way of going about it. A mostly-of-the-time-wrong dumb interface isn’t.