[sane-devel] sane-frontends

[Ralph Little]

Hi all,
Just a little update on things to keep everyone in the loop.

I'm trying to get sane-frontends ready for a release. To that end here is a
list of recent activity:

- GTK3 port of the GUIs xscanimage and xcam (Thanks Thierry!) - the port is
complete but some small bugs still remain. I will address these in
conjunction with Thiery.

- I18n support added to the apps (Thanks again Thierry!) - en, fr and en_GB
currently exist. When the code base settles down, perhaps I will put the
call out for translations.

- Build system complete revamp. The build files were super old. I have
reconstituted what were probably the original automake files and purged out
the old ones. This has broken the CI pipeline so I will update that
shortly. The build files are built completely from scratch so some CI
integration mods are likely needed.

So what remains:
- Fix and update the CI pipeline on Gitlab.
- Any remaining GTK3 bug fixes.
- Any remaining issues on GitLab that we can squeeze in.
- GIMP 3 plugin porting for xscanimage. I have done this in xsane and it
was pretty straightforward. xscanimage will support GIMP 2.10 and 3.
- Upstream any downstream patches where appropriate.
- I *might* see about adding some kind of little splashscreen for the GUIs.
It is disconcerting that there is typically a significant delay before
anything appears due to the initial sane_get_devices() call leading to the
suspicion that nothing is happening.

I don't have a specific timeline for this as it really depends on what time
that I have, but we should be ready quite soon.

Cheers,
Ralph
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