[sane-devel] scanimage and option titles

[m. allan noah]

On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Jeffrey Ratcliffe
<jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> GUIs often either use the SANE API directly, or control a scanner by
> wrapping scanimage.
>
> Generally, there is no advantage in using scanimage, as it is slower,
> but in certain situations, for instance remote access, it is not
> possible to use the SANE API directly. Also, debugging a backend
> problem is much easier with scanimage.

I am curious about both of these assertions- can you elaborate the
advantages of scanimage here?

> The major visual difference for the user in these two interface
> methods, is that, apart from groups, scanimage does not expose the
> option titles. As the option names are not translated, a GUI therefore
> cannot use the sane-backend translations and has to use its own.
>
> This could all be avoided if scanimage were to expose the option
> titles. The translations from sane-backends could be used, and the two
> interface methods would look the same.
>
> I therefore propose an additional option for scanimage that exposes
> the option title in the --help output.
>
> Is a patch for scanimage along these lines likely to be accepted?

Yes- we would accept such a patch, as it would be useful for
command-line users as well.

allan
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