Re: Gnome and scan UI.

[Étienne Bersac <bersace03 free fr>]

[Resent to the whole list]

Hello,

Thank you for your interest.

> To say about design it's probably better to
> have an app then a library since I don't see much reusable points in
> scan functionality.
GnomePrint ship a cool dialog widget to launch a printing job. We  
should have a dialog widget acquiring at least picture (especially  
photos). We should even ship a dialog to import multipage document  
into one text with gocr. This is a pretty good feature for Abiword.

> Of course, application can be modular enough and
> contain internal libraries. It's just interesting to know, is it
> possible to do the changes in xsane itself or at least reuse some  
> xsane
> code?
I have source of xsane to see an implementation of a sane frontend  
but the code is not commented enough, this program is intend to be  
multiplatform and do not use libglade. Nevertheless, key features  
like crop picture before scanning and other such as fax and e-mailing  
can easyly be imported.

We should start simple. A tiny application with good code hierarchy  
will be a first step toward a shared library. Just think to what mead  
GTK : The Gimp ToolKit :)

> Of course, you might also consider using different language then
> C, that will make development much faster.
I never heard about libsane binding in other language than C. I wanna  
learn glib programming, gobject and gtype manipulation etc. writing  
this library in C is the promess to have a easy portable and  
"bindable" library. I like C programming :)

> And, if you have some questions about GNOME programming, feel free to
> ask here or on gnome-love list.
I will remember :)

For the conception aspect. I'm currently playing with libsane,  
libglade and try to plan what is the basis of scan frontend. Maybe  
discussions with Oliver Rauch (the great xsane developer) will help.  
At the present, I wonder what is the infrastructure that allow  
development of library such as libgnomeprint and so on. Wiki ? ML ?  
IRC ? Jabber ? Single developer in each corner ? Don't know. "Welcome  
to the open source world !" :)

Thanks.