[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[Étienne Bersac]

Hi,

> but what is the frontend going to do with that, read the user's
> setting, then turn the data back around and set the resolution and
> duplex options? it seems that would be better done in the backend
> itself.

But the frontend should be aware that the device has changed some value,
at least in order to update UI. I think that simply adding cap
HARD_SELECT should be enough to tell the frontend : poll this if you
want to know when the user change the value of this option from the
device.

Regards,
Étienne.