Re: Gnome and scan UI.

[Étienne Bersac <bersace03 free fr>]

Hello,

> Please not that libgnomeprint/libgnomeprintui is quite outdated  
> library
> and I wouldn't advise to take it as example. It's better to look on
> new printing work for GTK, for example this thread:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2006-March/msg00019.html
Yes, i heard somethings about this. Thank you for the link.  
libgnomeprint and egg have the same goals : provide abstraction and  
widget to handle printing. This is what i want to refer to when i  
talk about libgnomeprint. libgnomescan should abstract sane and ship  
HIG widget easy to use both for users and developers.

> Printing library is required for many applications but I don't see  
> much
> use of scanning functionality _inside_ AbiWord. Isn't it better to  
> have
> scanner app managed by remote (say dbus) interface that can produce
> documents for later import of them. Of course this just requires  
> design
> decision. I would say it's better to have a managed app and the
> advantage of an application is that you can make it's development
> significantly faster by using modern language.
Just think to a plugin for Abiword which add a "scan document" aside  
from "import document or event start a document from paper. This is  
great features somes people like and that make the difference. Of  
course, this keep being a plugin.

> You can use free OSS hosting like sf.net or berlios.de to start. If  
> you
> already have gnome-complaint application you may request bugzilla
> product on bugzilla.gnome.org, ftp.gnome.org directory and some dir  
> for
> your project in gnome cvs. You can easily create new channel on
> irc.gnome.org and page on gnome wiki - live.gnome.org.  
> gnomefiles.org is
> also a good place to register your app. But it's really hard to be  
> GNOME
> application, you might want to look here
>
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeCertification
Yes, i'm aware that it is easy to publish a gtk+ app (see http:// 
gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=1110 ), but very hard to be part of  
the GNOME project. I do not intend to import my code into Gnome  
project. I'm waiting for some Gnome guru to catch up ideas and code.  
I'm far from able to manage such a project. I'm 20 years old and  
quite noobs in C/glib/gtk/... programming. No pretentions.

Regards.