> >Printing library is required for many applications but I don't see > >much > >use of scanning functionality _inside_ AbiWord. Isn't it better to > >have > >scanner app managed by remote (say dbus) interface that can produce > >documents for later import of them. Of course this just requires > >design > >decision. I would say it's better to have a managed app and the > >advantage of an application is that you can make it's development > >significantly faster by using modern language. > Just think to a plugin for Abiword which add a "scan document" aside > from "import document or event start a document from paper. This is > great features somes people like and that make the difference. Of > course, this keep being a plugin.
Well, maybe some ocr library wouldn't be bad as well ;)) P.T. -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
