[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:52:51 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Have you counted thru how many developers are willing to rewrite their code (backends, frontends, etc.) for this arbitrarily defined SANE 2 thing ? My votes still are: preferably compatibly change SANE 1 or adopt

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 09:16, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:52:51 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Have you counted thru how many developers are willing to rewrite their code (backends, frontends, etc.) for this arbitrarily defined SANE 2 thing ? My votes

[sane-devel] hp backend fails to detect HP SCSI scanner

2008-03-28 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Mar 27 08:16 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): can you get the original poster to put it back to stock, and get a debug log like this: SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=5 SANE_DEBUG_HP=128 scanimage -L Done. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350688#c17 or the debug output

[sane-devel] Formulardaten

2008-03-28 Thread cgi-mai...@kundenserver.de
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[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM, stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hello, before any work can start on SANE 2, the current proposal has to be completed. and before we can complete it, we must acknowlege that it has not been touched in 5 years, and many of its contributors are

[sane-devel] hp backend fails to detect HP SCSI scanner

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
and this fix has been committed to cvs. allan On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de wrote: Hello, On Mar 27 08:16 m. allan noah wrote (shortened): can you get the original poster to put it back to stock, and get a debug log like this:

[sane-devel] [05.20] Re: SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 11:52, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:34:22 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: I believe that Stef has made very clear its intentions to go toward SANE 2. TWAIn for linux would be a complete rewrite of everything, and compatible changes to

[sane-devel] [PATCH] make scanimage work with HP ScanJet (HP 6250C), finally

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Meyering
Peter Kirchgessner peter at kirchgessner.net wrote: I have no problem if the usleep(1000) is added. If it helps, it's ok. For a typical scan about 200 inquiries are done. So setting up the scanner is slowed down by 0.2 seconds in total. That is far less than the scan will need. I don't know

[sane-devel] [PATCH] make scanimage work with HP ScanJet (HP 6250C), finally

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net wrote: Peter Kirchgessner peter at kirchgessner.net wrote: I have no problem if the usleep(1000) is added. If it helps, it's ok. For a typical scan about 200 inquiries are done. So setting up the scanner is slowed down by

[sane-devel] [PATCH] make scanimage work with HP ScanJet (HP 6250C), finally

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Meyering
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net wrote: Peter Kirchgessner peter at kirchgessner.net wrote: I have no problem if the usleep(1000) is added. If it helps, it's ok. For a typical scan about 200 inquiries are done. So

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi Allan, On 28.03.2008, at 14:46, m. allan noah wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:22 PM, stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hello, before any work can start on SANE 2, the current proposal has to be completed. and before we can complete it, we must acknowlege that it has not

[sane-devel] Xsane the Epson V200

2008-03-28 Thread Doug Robinson
Hello My friend has a Ubuntu 7.10 system on an older machine, which seems to work fine. I installed the drivers as suggested at http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html and all is not well. It works fine at 300 dpi but 1200

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Oliver Rauch
I can not believe it. There is someone who says I will start working on SANE2 and you have nothing better to do than to tell him it is better not to do it. This is called progress. Really good. Best regards Oliver Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 08:52 +0100 schrieb Rene Rebe: Have you counted

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, - scanner's button handling this is overly complicated, and should be re-examined. For that and other reasons, I think it'd really be better to have the frontends be entirely isolated from the backends, as I explained already. This

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 18:40, Oliver Rauch wrote: I can not believe it. There is someone who says I will start working on SANE2 and you have nothing better to do than to tell him it is better not to do it. I did not tell him not to, but expressed my disbelieve in the whole rewrite

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 18:40, Julien BLACHE wrote: m. allan noah kitno455 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, - scanner's button handling this is overly complicated, and should be re-examined. For that and other reasons, I think it'd really be better to have the frontends be entirely

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, This would provide a central point (saned) handling the hardware entirely, it can chat with other things (HAL, anything over D-Bus, you name it) and we totally avoid the current side effects we have today. Do you mean having some cups for scanner ? Actually, i wish not, because users

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks for infra-red frames, and maybe a ability to pass duplex data without buffering the rear side, which becomes even more of a problem with the next generation, higher end

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do you mean having some cups for scanner ? Something much more simple than CUPS, but yeah, basically. Actually, i wish not, because users don't want another service. HAL can launch addon per device which allow to launch nothing if no scanner

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, Sounds a bit Data Source Manager like-ish (in TWAIN terms), definetly and idea for desktops. Yes. From what you told about TWAIN the other day, I think I like the architecture. I don't know enough about TWAIN to tell for sure, though. Oh, I forgot

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks for infra-red frames, and maybe a ability to pass duplex data without buffering the rear side, which becomes even more of a

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 19:09, Julien BLACHE wrote: ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Do you mean having some cups for scanner ? Something much more simple than CUPS, but yeah, basically. Actually, i wish not, because users don't want another service. HAL can launch

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks for infra-red frames, and maybe a

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
Hi, On 28.03.2008, at 19:13, Julien BLACHE wrote: Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Hi, Sounds a bit Data Source Manager like-ish (in TWAIN terms), definetly and idea for desktops. Yes. From what you told about TWAIN the other day, I think I like the architecture. I don't know

[sane-devel] Xsane the Epson V200

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
the sane project does not provide this driver. i would suggest that you ask the maker. allan On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Doug Robinson dkrr at telus.net wrote: Hello My friend has a Ubuntu 7.10 system on an older machine, which seems to work fine. I installed the drivers as

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:19, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100 Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: Right now the only thing I miss are marks for

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:19, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:49:17 +0100

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, Could you PLEASE stop thinking HAL all the time? Could you please stop taking HAL as an offense all the time ? By talking about HAL, i mean do not impose another system service and let external project do it on top of SANE, be it either a DBus daemon, a HAL addon, a regular daemon, etc.

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Rene Rebe
On 28.03.2008, at 19:34, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:19, m. allan noah wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: On 28.03.2008, at 19:02, Alessandro Zummo wrote:

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Rene Rebe rene at exactcode.de wrote: The TWAIN standard is open, and here is the link: http://twain.org/docs/TWAIN19.pdf Back in the days, ISTR it wasn't open. I'll try to find some time to go through it. Actually the capabilities are even quite similar. That's what makes the most sense

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: By talking about HAL, i mean do not impose another system service and let external project do it on top of SANE, be it either a DBus daemon, a HAL addon, a regular daemon, etc. Bar telling no new service please, HAL can launch things as needed.

[sane-devel] SANE2 standard completion

2008-03-28 Thread m. allan noah
On 3/28/08, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: By talking about HAL, i mean do not impose another system service and let external project do it on top of SANE, be it either a DBus daemon, a HAL addon, a regular daemon, etc. Bar telling

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread stef
Hello, it seems that the real question is what do we want for SANE future ? 1 - the current situation is perfectly fine, don't need to change a thing. 2 - only a couple of new image formats are needed, simply evolve a few things. 3 - put together the

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hi, I'm rather inclined to the 3 goal, since I feel there are quite a few things to do to improve SANE. Having a new standard doesn't mean SANE 1 stops to exist. Both can coexist. Do you really think there is the needed manpower to co-maintain 2 versions

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread stef
Le Friday 28 March 2008 22:05:24 Julien BLACHE, vous avez ?crit?: stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hi, I'm rather inclined to the 3 goal, since I feel there are quite a few things to do to improve SANE. Having a new standard doesn't mean SANE 1 stops to exist. Both can coexist.

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
Note also one thing about the SANE2 discussion: Currently I am working on getting SANE1 into the LSB (I posted already about this some months ago and no one answered). This will help us that it is much easier for scanner manufacturers to ship drivers with their scanners. They can simply build

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
stef stef.dev at free.fr wrote: Hi, Your mails are horribly formatted, please wrap your lines at 72 characters. Thanks! indeed we are only a few people. But things can be done so that it isn't hard to achieve. However, does it mean you are akin to keep things as they are ? which is

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com wrote: ago and no one answered). This will help us that it is much easier for scanner manufacturers to ship drivers with their scanners. They can This is all but a good thing. Currently, binary backends provided by the manufacturers are nothing more

[sane-devel] SANE2, what do we want ?

2008-03-28 Thread Jon Chambers
On Friday 28 March 2008, Julien BLACHE wrote: I'm rather inclined to the 3 goal, since I feel there are quite a few things to do to improve SANE. Having a new standard doesn't mean SANE 1 stops to exist. Both can coexist. Do you really think there is the needed manpower to co-maintain