[sane-devel] scanbd - scanner button daemon

[Wilhelm Meier]

Hello everybody,

some time ago I was looking for a universal scanner-button-daemon. I 
found some approaches (sanebuttonsd, KSannerButtons, scanmonitord), 
but none of them convinced me. 

So I sat down and wrote an own version.

The problems of the above mentioned old solutions were:

1) no hal support
2) no dbus support
3) no support to interact with saned

The new scanbd fulfills the above points (until now in a somewhat 
limited extent):

1) scanbd uses hal dbus-interface to detect new scanners or scanners 
that vanished (usb plugoff)

2) scanbd uses dbus to sendout signals if it performs an action (scans 
and emails an image e.g). This can be used by desktop-applications.

3) scanbd uses a dbus-interface to expose methods to perform actions 
(this too can be used by desktop applications)

4) scanbd interacts nicely with saned: it stops polling the scanner 
buttons if the scanner-device must be used by saned.

5) scanbd can poll arbitrary number of scanner

6) flexible configuration

This is a very early release of the piece of software - be warned. 

You can get it from:

http://scanbd.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/scanbd/

Comments very welcome!
-- 
Wilhelm