[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[m. allan noah]

On 5/26/08, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
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>  > or perhaps scan2 or altscan?
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> No ! you need to keep to semantic ! altscan or scan is not
>  selfexplanatory. Please prefer "film" or "scan-film".

i doubt any frontend is going to code distinct support for such a
unique button, but we can craft the standard to state than any
alternate buttons should be named 'scan-xxx' or some such. however, we
are shooting for a list of common names, not everything.

>
>  We should also state whether we should use "_" or "-" in option name. I
>  guess that the standard is lowercase + hyphen + digit.
>

you are correct about the standard.

allan
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