On 07.03.12 10:59:50, todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat <ap...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 07.03.12 10:23:32, todd rme wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag <frei...@kde.org> wrote: > >> > On 06.03.2012 18:02, todd rme wrote: > > [...] > >> > These kind of things. Not sure if a kio is cool for any of these. > >> > >> A gui able to do all the things you listed would necessarily be > >> extremely complicated and likely difficult to use, unless most of the > >> tasks were automated push-button affairs. In the latter case, there > >> is little advantage over a kio slave. I would think that a kio slave > >> would be more natural, since users would not need to know terminology > >> or the menu structure. > > > > Maybe I didn't use enough of the more fancy kio-slaves, but I have a > > hard time imagining how I'd be able to use this with say konqueror. I'd > > go to > > > > kscan://<scannername>/ > > > > And then see whats been scanned, but how do I initiate a scan? Do I need > > to go to some special url? If so, how do I trigger the OCR creation > > after scanning? > > To activate a scan of an image, you either drag the image file in the > kio slave to another folder, or you open it in a program (either by > clicking or using the right-click menu). In the case of dragging it > to a folder, it will be automatically scanned and saved in the > destination folder without the user needing to do anything else. In > the case where you open it in a program, it will probably be scanned > to a temporary folder or stored in memory and then opened in the > program, once again without the user doing anything else. > > In the case of OCR, it would be the same, except a temporary image > file woulds be scanned, OCRed, and deleted (or again stored in > memory). > > This, at least, is how the CD kio slave does it.
I see, so I misunderstood a bit what the content of the slave would be. Interesting idea. The cd-kioslave is a bit different since it has actual "files" on the medium backing up the files shown (the audio-tracks). Andreas >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
