On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 23:53 +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > Some scanners need a firmawre file who, while it cannot be provided by > Fedora can be legally downloaded from the manufacturer's site. The > problem is that Fedora provides zero hints about it. > > I have an EPSON USB scanner (snapscan driver) and if you look at the > sane-backends doc it says _nothing_ about firmware and it points to a > web page who hasn't been updated in _eight_ years. In other words > official documentation is zero help. > > In the following I detail what to do and make a few suggestions for > improving user experience with scanners requiring firmware. The SANE UI(s) should probably rely on PackageKit's session daemon to download the file automatically, as necessary. This is a process similar to what we have for codecs and kernel firmwares, and what we want to have for mime-types and fonts. Flegita (gnome-scan's scanner UI) is probably the best place to request such a change. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-scan and http://projects.gnome.org/gnome-scan/index Cheers -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
