#12251: Replace XSane with Simple-Scan
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Reporter: renodr | Owner: renodr
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: hold
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by timtas):
I had a look at it quickly, and it does not look too good for non-gnome
users:
- It builds and installs fine with meson/ninja, it asks about packagekit-
glib2, but is fine without it.
- It installs tons of help pages with the ending .help, which is some
xml format, probably once useful in some gnome reader.
- It cannot be integrated into gimp
- When calling it, it asks for a device, while xsane auto-detects my HP
Printer Scanner on my network.
So, in short: I cannot scan images with simple-scan, and have a fairly
regular setup, with a hplip supported HP Printer/Scanner, that works
perfectly fine with xsane. All I get from xsane is:
Trace/breakpoint trap
It's probably only useful for usb-attached devices, which is not really
what people do.
So, I'm strongly advocating against dropping xsane and including simple-
scan, simply because xscan works and simple-scan does not.
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