On Sonntag, 8. August 2021 23:12:11 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El diumenge, 8 d’agost de 2021, a les 18:50:17 (CEST), Alexander Stippich va escriure: > > Hello everyone, > > > > Skanpage is now in kdereview. > > Skanpage is a scanning application and originally a concept from Kåre Särs > > from approx. 5 years ago. I started to work on it late last year and now > > deemed it ready for a wider audience. > > The main user-visible difference to the existing Skanlite is that it is > > designed to be a dedicated multi-page scanning application with PDF > > export. > > The main technical difference is that it is using QtQuick for its > > interface. > > > > My plan is to directly ask for Skanpage to be included in KDE Gear if > > possible once it has passed kdereview. > > > > Skanpage needs the 21.08 KDE Gear release of libksane. A lot of work has > > been done with the help of Kåre to untangle the QWidget-based KSaneWidget > > into a separate KSaneWidget and a logic interface named KSaneCore, where > > only the latter is used by Skanpage. The new KSaneCore component is > > released with 21.08. In the future, it is planned to spin off the > > KSaneCore component into its own library without any QWidget-dependency. > > > > Some features that are still missing from my point of view: > > - missing keyboard navigation > > - shortcut management > > - missing authentication for access-restricted devices > > - OCR (proof-of-concept available) > > - in the far future: a convergent interface for networked scanners on > > mobile devices > > > > There are tons of errors thrown when reselecting a scanner device. This > > seems to be an issue with Kirigami.FormLayout and the bug is reported. > > Also, some binding loops occur within the ScrollView, but the application > > still behaves. > Have you also reported the fact that disabled toolbar buttons look exactly > like the enabled ones? > > Albert
Done. Seems also to affect others. Actually hadn't actively noticed since the icons do get grayed out, but the text certainly isn't. Cheers, Alex > > So while certainly some features are still missing, I find Skanpage to be > > quite useful already and an improvement over Skanlite for document > > scanning, especially with ADF scanners. > > > > Best regards, > > Alex
