On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:17:50 +0100 Julien BLACHE <jb at jblache.org> wrote:
> The backend doesn't know, either. Currently the buttons are used > mostly by custom frontends which do know what's hiding behind the > buttons. > > There is no standard in SANE, which is a problem, but even worse > there's nothing standard accross all the hardware. > > It's not a trivial problem to fix, as past discussions have shown. I believe in windows it works this way: - every driver/backend exports the supported buttons - the OS asks the user to bind the button to a specific function this way it doesn't matter how the button is called. I've seen an epson with "Scan, Mail, PDF" and a Fujitsu with "Button 0, Button 1, ..." / -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
