Hi, On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:23:51PM +0100, Michael Piotrowski wrote: > As a linguist ;-) I think "multi-function peripheral" isn't a bad > term. A "generic scanner" is a _scanner_, but a "multi-function > peripheral" is (in _this_ context) a device that is not only a scanner > but also has other functions.
The background of my comments is that a frontend may decide to check the device type for e.g. "scanner" or "camera" to change its functions. I don't think that any frontend currently does this, but it would be possible. In principle I have no preference concerning this. So is anybody against a new type "multi-function peripheral"? Bye, Henning