[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

[Oliver Rauch]

Yves Duret wrote:
> 
> Oliver Rauch <oliver.rauch at rauch-domain.de> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > But this only works when the users send enough feedback to
> > the programmers so that programmers know what they have to change.
> 
> you can have a look at drakscanner (formely named scannerdrake in Mandrake
> 8.2). It operates with two modes:
> - either you launch it, it tries to autodetect your scanner and configures it,
> if nothing is found (scsi probing is not implemented yet) you manually select
> your scanner.
> - either you hotplug a new scanner and thanks devfs/hotplug/dynamic
> scannerdrake is launched to configure sane and create an icon on the desktop
> (link to xsane).
> All is released under GPL, written in perl with the Mandrake API (MDK::Common
> and interactive for gui) but can easely ported to another type of toolkit. It
> uses a ScannerDB that i build myself using sane *.desc, scanner.c kernel
> driver and info from this ml/user (mainly mandrake's ones) feedback.
> If you want further info feel free to ask me.


This may solve some recent problems but it is not the desired approch.
The sane backends have to be improved that they work out of the box.

I think in opposite a configuration GUI would make the authors of the
backends say it is not necessary to improve the backends because the
GUI does the work.

Bye
Oliver

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