Re: [Gimp-developer] Xsane with Gimp on Mac OS X

[Partha Bagchi <partha1b gmail com>]

At one point, I was thinking the same thing! Also for Windows, use the
native libraries.

Can you share your code offline with me? I'm not promising obviously since
I'm not at all a good programmer.


On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 4:22 AM Kristian Rietveld <kris loopnest org> wrote:

> > On 29 Dec 2018, at 18:56, Brion Vibber via gimp-developer-list <
> gimp-developer-list gnome org> wrote:
> > Hmm... is something broken with the TWAIN scanner plugin on Mac, or
> perhaps
> > have scanner drivers moved away from using the TWAIN system and so that's
> > not picking up your driver?
>
> The TWAIN driver had issues on macOS. I think that for macOS the right way
> forward is to implement a plugin that uses the ImageCapture libraries. This
> will give you imports from scanners as well as cameras (including
> iphones/ipads) for all devices that ship with appropriate macOS drivers.
>
> I once started working on such a plugin but I have no interest in
> finishing it at this moment. It is not in a good enough shape to put in
> git. If anyone wants to continue working on this, let me know and I will
> happily share the code that I wrote as a starting point.
>
>
> regards,
>
> -kris.
>
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