[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Change default scanning application for hplip

Thu Oct 13 11:11:39 CEST 2011

Am 13.10.2011 08:45, schrieb Thierry Vignaud:
+> On 13 October 2011 03:19, Florian Hubold<doktor5000 at arcor.de>  wrote:
+>>>>> As in my opinion xsane is quite complicated
+>>>>> and not user-friendly for scanning, i want to change the default to
+>>>>> simple-scan, to improve the user experience. All the others are kept,
+>>>>> maybe
+>>>>> replacing kooka by skanlite, only simple-scan would then be first in
+>>>>> search order.
+>>>> Sounds like a good idea.
+>>> It doesn't integrate within gimp
+>>>
+>> You still can launch xsane from gimp, if you like, or do you mean
+>> that you can directly call gimp from xsane? Also please remember, this
+>> is only about the default scanning application for hplip (hp-scan).
+> xsane is ugly and needs a replacement.
+That's what i meant. *buntu at least seem to have switched to using
+simple-scan as default, maybe they have some patches for gimp? I'll take a look.
+> simple-scan looks nice but cannot be called from within gimp.
+> Maybe should we just change the user workflow
+>
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