Package: xsane
Version: 0.99+0.991-1
Severity: normal

Under certain conditions, the click-through appears again and again, at each
startup.  I believe this to be a bug, because at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132679 the author wrote

> The license dialog comes up once when the user runs a new version of xsane,
> it does not come up every time.

Here's the situation:
 - USB scanner is plugged in and available,
 - user is not in group scanner,
 - user runs xsane for the first time.

(Won't this happen to many users?  It's a pretty reasonable scenario.)

 - User encounters the click-through, a little upsetting (#132679), but
   not too important.  She clicks "accept".  Up pops
   "Failed to open device `niash:libusb:004:006': Device busy."

(Not a helpful message; see bug #409550.  By contrast, if no scanner is
plugged in, xsane produces a nice help button.)

User clicks to exit the program, and fiddles around trying to get xsane to
work.  Unplugs and replugs the scanner.  Tries different ports.  Struggles
with the documentation, tries some wrong things.  She does the right thing,
and adds herself to the group scanner - but without logging in and out, so it
still doesn't work.

Each time she tries xsane, she has to click through the licence again before
getting the same error.  The error is annoying enough.  By now, the repeated
licence click-through is upsetting and insulting.

Result: this user's first exposure to xsane is exasperating, and her opinion
of debian as a desktop goes down.

I believe many users will share this experience.

Please consider adjusting xsane, so the click-through is shown only once.

Best wishes,

(Dr) Jeremy Bygott
Oxford

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xsane depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.12.4-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.3.6.ds1-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.2.4-4        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1        generic font configuration library
ii  libgimp2.0                2.2.13-1       Libraries necessary to Run the GIM
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.4-2       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.8.20-5       The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libieee1284-3             0.2.10-4       cross-platform library for paralle
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-13          The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.14.8-4       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libsane                   1.0.18-5       API library for scanners
ii  libtiff4                  3.8.2-7        Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libusb-0.1-4              2:0.1.12-2     userspace USB programming library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-4      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1               1.1.7-4        X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.1-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.1-4.1    X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.1.0.2-5    X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.1-3      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xsane-common              0.99+0.991-1   GTK+-based X11 frontend for SANE (
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-13     compression library - runtime



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