Been trying this kcm_webcam plugins for klixs, it works as it should be and want to share it. This kcm_webcam is a modified version of password & user account section on systemsettings, which is add a webcam support for user image profile. This modification is based on OpenCV library due to multi platform capability. You can find this project on kde-look.
To install this plugins, was never been easier as any other kde applications.
- Get opencv-devel from repository if you haven’t install it
- Download the tar ball, extract them to same folder : tar -xzf kcm.tar.gz
- Go into the kcm folder : cd kcm/
- Create a build directory and get into it : mkdir build && cd build/
- Execute cmake : cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
- Execute make : make
- su to root and install : make install
Now, go to KDE systemsettings, Common Appearance and behaviour, Password & User Account (I’m using KDE 4.5.1). Make sure the webcam already switch on if there are any Fn Hotkey for that, and click the user image. You should see the From Webcam button option to change the user image.
Somehow after trying this succesfully, I found some minor discomfort … because this is a modified version of module kcm_useraccount from KDE 4.4.5, after applying this patch to kcm_useraccount modules on KDE 4.5.1, the Password & User Account section now moved from Account Details to Lost and Found Section. Looks like the X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=about-me at /usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_useraccount.desktop was changed to X-KDE-System-Settings-Parent-Category=account-details on KDE 4.5.1 systemsettings. Of course the fix was pretty easy to apply, and here is I repackage the new kcm_webcam module for KDE 4.5.1
