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

[Florian Hubold]

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
>