[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

[Oliver Schwartz]

Hi,

> I also thought about a sane GUI configuration tool about 2 years ago.
> But this is not the correct approach. The backends and the backend
> configuration files have to come in a way that all scanners work
> without any user interaction. The sane standard allows this.

I think there are cases where user interaction is still necessary. Consider 
for example the path to a firmware file which has to be configured. Since 
firmware files cannot be freely redistributed this would be very hard to do 
without user interaction. Another example are scanner types for USB scanners 
on systems that don't support vendor / product ID queries via ioctl.

If there was a GUI for such settings the SANE installation for the average 
user could be much simpler.

Regards,

Oliver