[sane-devel] Film holder control (and adf)

[Major A]

Henning,

> That's right. Currently there is no well known type for film/slide scanners
> so I think we can add this in the standard.
> 
> Are both names valid or should one of them be chosen? I mean: are
> these only different names or is this different hardware? Can the
> backend authors agree on one name?

I don't know of any scanners that can scan slides but no negatives, so
I would suggest the general term "film scanner".

> So add a button-type option "Query scan-information from scanner" or
> similar?

Good idea, you can also incorporate the poll option into this.

> I don't understand this. Why should scanimage print this information?

I don't think it should, the backend only should give the values back
either encoded in a SANE_Word array or as a string.

  Andras

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