On Friday 05 June 2009 08:56:47 Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 06/05/2009 06:23 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > Heya, > > > > Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release, > > and saw this: > > https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan > > > > gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more > > integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners > > easier in GNOME and Fedora in general. > > > > Any takers? > > > > I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting > > up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that > > gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default > > installation. > > Perhaps we could target some specific scanners on the first attempt? We > might be able to get some hardware donated to the effort. > > ~spot, who has several scanners of varying age and quality in a box nb: I have two scanners up here as well that can be utilized, they're actually dual firewire/usb scanners that krh got when working on the firewire stack (and I inherited when I was working on it). Of course, last I knew, they both worked just fine using the gimp sane plugin, so they may not be all that interesting. (One is an Epson somethingorother, one is a Microtek, both are reasonably nice scanners) -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
