Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Henning Meier-Geinitz <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > Does it make sense to add a .desc file in the external section? So > > > the epson kowa backend would show up on the SANE webpage as external > > > backend. > > > > I guess it would. While we are at it, I guess you could also add > > "Image Scan! for Linux" to the frontends page. > > There is a link now. However, I just found out that iscan only works > with Epson scanners. From frontend/pisa_sane_scan.cc: > > if ( 0 == ::strcasecmp ( ppdevice_list [ i ]->vendor, "epson" ) )
Harrumpf. I'll see what I can do about that (read: what I'm allowed to do about that in our official packages). Hmm, a configure option perhaps? That could keep both sides happy. > And in fact, it ignores all my scanners. If I "fake" an Epson scanner, > the device is opened and the option descriptors are read but nothing > more. So iscan is not really a SANE frontend in my opinion. Agreed on the frontend part. Personally I think it'd be nice if iscan supported scanner from other manufacturers as well, but I'm not sure what the people who foot the bill think about that. > So I'll add a comment to the SANE frontends page. > > Still waiting for the epsonkw.desc :-) Don't hold your breath :-) I'm up to (way over) my ears in work. -- Olaf Meeuwissen EPSON KOWA Corporation, ECS GnuPG key: 6BE37D90/AB6B 0D1F 99E7 1BF5 EB97 976A 16C7 F27D 6BE3 7D90 Penguin's lib! -- I hack, therefore I am -- LPIC-2
