On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:22 +0200, yahvuu wrote: > after some more thinking, here's my take for 2.8: > > > File->New... > File->Acquire->Scan from Device xy... > Scan from Device yz... > > Nice extra: if there's only one device connected, the whole 'File->Acquire' submenu > can be replaced by 'File->Aquire Scan from Device xy...'. > That should maximize scanner discoverability. That's actually not implementable as the scanner entries are created by plug-ins. All a plug-in can do is to register entries in a menu. As far as I can tell not all scanner plug-ins register a menu entry per device. Actually it's even a rather bad idea to do that since that means that the plug-in needs to be run at every GIMP startup in order to query for scanner devices. Actually it would even have to keep runnning to make hot-plug of scanners work. It's a much better idea to just have a "Scan" menu entry and do the device discovery at the moment the plug-in is invoked. If there are multiple scanners connected, the plug-in can present a device selection. For a single scanner it can skip this. It will also be a pain to persuade the authors of scanner plug-ins to change their menu registration based on the GIMP version. We can work-around that to some extent by mapping menu paths to a different place. That functionality is already in place for menu paths that have been moved over the last GIMP versions. I guess most scanner plug-ins even still register in <Image>/File/Acquire and are being mapped to <Image>/File/Create/Acquire Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
