[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-18 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Mar 17 20:53 ?tienne Bersac wrote (shortened): sell us on the IDEA first, then lets look at the implementation. ... The most important goal of HAL is to provide plug-and-play facilities for UNIX Could you explain which end-user issues do you like to solve? hal-scanner provide

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-18 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, Could you explain which end-user issues do you like to solve? Currently, if user put paper and push scan button, nothing happen. While scanning, if user push cancel button, nothing happen (except maybe some high level device like all-in-one). If forgot to plug or switch on the scanner

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, I worked on HAL-scanner, a project providing a HALd addon for monitoring hardware selection option of SANE device just like scannerbuttond. Features are : * once instance per device (more robust) * run only once a device is plugged (thanks HAL) * provide a tiny DBus

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, Something bad is that i need Abel Deuring fdi generator in order to have sane backend in the fdi. How do you handle scanners supported by several backends? JB. -- Julien BLACHE http://www.jblache.org jb at

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, Something bad is that i need Abel Deuring fdi generator in order to have sane backend in the fdi. How do you handle scanners supported by several backends? Currently, hal addon use the first backend available. Remember it is rather a proof of concept. The code should check

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, SANE or HAL. All the udi-sane name code must be in SANE and the addon must be in HAL. How does this new piece of SANE code integrate into the SANE architecture? I'm sorry, I don't see where this code lies. I hope you do know that every SANE

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread m. allan noah
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Julien BLACHE jb at jblache.org wrote: ?tienne Bersac bersace03 at gmail.com wrote: Hi, SANE or HAL. All the udi-sane name code must be in SANE and the addon must be in HAL. How does this new piece of SANE code integrate into the SANE architecture?

[sane-devel] HAL scanner addon

2008-03-17 Thread Étienne Bersac
Hi, You're right, i though that SANE people were a bit aware of HAL since it has already been discussed in this list years ago. sell us on the IDEA first, then lets look at the implementation. Let me explain that for SANE people. Please remember i'm primarily GNOME Scan developer and thus have