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Cheese installed by default in Ubuntu  
Written by nq6 the 2 Oct 09 at 17:00. New
Cheese is a Photobooth-inspired GNOME application for taking pictures and videos from a webcam. It also includes fancy graphical effects based on the gstreamer-backend.

Homepage: http://projects.gnome.org/cheese
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Solution #1: Cheese installed by default in Ubuntu
Written by nq6 the 2 Oct 09 at 17:00.
Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.

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Cheese is a very interesting program, small and can be inserted in Ubuntu by default. Today we have almost all Notebooks webcams installed. It would be very interesting.

Note: The installation could be smart. If one was identified Webcam on the machine, it installed the Cheese.
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Solution #2: "Best" webcam program should be chosen
Written by hoppimike the 4 Oct 09 at 11:38.
Whichever webcam program is considered the best in terms of user-friendliness, features, integration and ease of future development should be the one integrated, or offered as an option for installation :)

If this is Cheese, then this should be the one chosen!

I am only suggesting this because I am unsure what the actual best Webcam program on Ubuntu is, and surely, whether it's Cheese or not, wouldn't it be logical to install the one that is the best? I am VERY confused as to why people keep marking this down :(

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Solution #3: Prompt for install when hardware detected
Written by Stebalien the 4 Oct 09 at 17:18.
Not all (and as far as I know, very few) people have webcams. Therefore, there is little reason for webcam software to be installed by default. Instead, Ubuntu should propt to install applicable applications on detection of hardware. This would not only be limited to webcams but would also apply to fingerprint readers, bluetooth devices, etc.

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