hi all, I'm working on Gnome Scan and intend to be very active in this realm in the next year.
This may hurt some people here. I want to bring scan support to hal. I intended to talk with sane people in january. I want in Gnome to use sane for access, not probe/detection. That's bad to probe each time you launch the app. I wonder if we need a kind of cups for scanner that use sane to access, receive job request and return stream of pictures. I wonder how to handle local and networked detection. I want to add avahi feature to scanner share. Likely, SANE 2 offer a new sane_open () prototype that allow to get device description without doing the probe. But how can hal know the sane device name ? I would like to add a "scanner.sane.name" field or similar into hal scanner device in order to allow app to use directly SANE (basically, a scaner cups will do that). Is this possible with SANE 1 ? If not, how does SANE 2 help for that ? Some of you may be attached to the double work of sane : device support, device probe. But i really think SANE must add a way for developer to handle device detection according to the target system standard (e.g. hal, windows, Solaris, etc.). I do not want sane to drop sane_get_devices (). Would be nice to get sane device name from vid/pid or some other info an OS/hal can give. That's easy to implement a simple hal addon that handle the filling of scanner.sane.name field. I wish you will understand that need. Kind regards, ?tienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?= Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061217/a9772311/attachment.pgp From bersac...@laposte.net Tue Dec 19 15:55:10 2006 From: bersac...@laposte.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9tienne?= Bersac) Date: Tue Dec 19 20:19:59 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] SANE2 commitment In-Reply-To: <1166539654.30598.31.camel@casa> References: <20061215175700.4c974c89@inspiron> <45854deb.9010...@penguin-breeder.org> <20061217172351.70067897@inspiron> <45858d8f.6080...@zago.net> <20061217201545.2a7c85c3@inspiron> <4585998d.7030...@zago.net> <20061217203458.10327e0e@inspiron> <69ff73b20612171152h1110e1deleb7b80d30264...@mail.gmail.com> <1166539654.30598.31.camel@casa> Message-ID: <1166540109.5681.35.camel@thilivren> Hi, > That would be really nice. I wonder if this will only work on linux. > What about *BSD, Solaris and Windows? I think that SANE must implement a modular OS <-> SANE API that allow OS to ask SANE to load a driver for one device and the monitor buttons, ? SANE should then also implement a "legacy" probe mecanism for other OSes or other purpose (distro not shiping HAL, etc.). ?tienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?= Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061219/36fc8090/attachment.pgp From bersac...@laposte.net Tue Dec 19 20:57:38 2006 From: bersac...@laposte.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C9tienne?= Bersac) Date: Tue Dec 19 22:58:39 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Frontends : Gnome Scan 0.4 ! Message-ID: <1166558258.5681.99.camel@thilivren> Hi all ! Gnome Scan 0.4 has been released with nice gui improvments and new features like x/y resolutions, computed area & rotation, ? http://gnome-scan.blogspot.com/2006/12/releasing-04-is-your-app-people-ready.html ?tienne. -- Verso l'Alto ! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?= Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/attachments/20061219/9da3ccac/attachment.pgp From s...@manx.net Tue Dec 19 22:59:30 2006 From: s...@manx.net (Scott Barnham) Date: Tue Dec 19 23:00:09 2006 Subject: [sane-devel] Epkowa failed to find all required interpreter API In-Reply-To: <87psagemh4....@geek.avasys.jp> References: <1166467821.5115.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> <87psagemh4....@geek.avasys.jp> Message-ID: <1166565570.5106.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 09:52 +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > [epkowa] attach_one_usb() > > [epkowa] SANE EPKOWA Backend 1.16.0-3 - 2005-06-29 > > Eh, this is way old ... and does not work with the current plugin > modules. > > Do yourself a favour and get iscan-2.x Thanks for the advice, Olaf. The Epkowa backed I had came from the Ubuntu libsane-extras package and I didn't realise it was out of date. I installed the iscan rpm and both Xsane and iscan are working well! Thanks again. Scott