[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration (again...)

2002-06-17 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:23:24PM +0200, stef wrote: > I came across the last discussion of GUI for sane configuration. I > agree that > a backend should be good enough to work out of the box. But in some cases, it > just > can't happen. For instance the umax_pp backend cannot detect

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration (again...)

2002-06-14 Thread stef
Hello, I came across the last discussion of GUI for sane configuration. I agree that a backend should be good enough to work out of the box. But in some cases, it just can't happen. For instance the umax_pp backend cannot detect properly which model is attached. Even UMAX provid

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-18 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:04:41AM +0200, Christian Fughe wrote: > My suggestions: > > 1.) After several successful years of sane it is up to the time ( Die Zeit > is reif :-) ) to make sane an official member of /etc/services and > /etc/inetd.conf. I use SuSE 7.1. I'm really surpris

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-18 Thread Christian Fughe
Hi, On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Examples? Do you mean something like > `./configure --net-hosts="some.server.domain"'? Yes! > In my opinion, we shouldn't mix installation and run-time > configuration. After runnning ./configure ; make ; make install; SANE > runs, that me

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-17 Thread Henning Meier-Geinitz
Hi, On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:55:39PM +0200, Christian Fughe wrote: > I suggest to add more options to the './configure ... and Makefile.in' > scripts to make the knowledge of the wizards available to the wide area of > general users as well as for generating a personal configuration. Examples?

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-16 Thread Christian Fughe
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Oliver Rauch wrote: > But this only works when the users send enough feedback to > the programmers so that programmers know what they have to change. Feedback: When I switch to a newer version of sane, it nearly works out of the box for me. Since I do scan over a local Ethe

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-16 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, > > Consider for example the path to a firmware file which has to be > > configured. Since firmware files cannot be freely redistributed this > > would be very hard to do without user interaction. > > I am not sure if we need a gui for this, a simple error message of the > kind: > > copy agfa

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-16 Thread Oliver Rauch
Oliver Schwartz wrote: > > I think there are cases where user interaction is still necessary. Consider > for example the path to a firmware file which has to be configured. Since > firmware files cannot be freely redistributed this would be very hard to do > without user interaction. I am not sur

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Schwartz
Hi, > I also thought about a sane GUI configuration tool about 2 years ago. > But this is not the correct approach. The backends and the backend > configuration files have to come in a way that all scanners work > without any user interaction. The sane standard allows this. I think there are case

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Rauch
Yves Duret wrote: > > Oliver Rauch writes: > > > I also thought about a sane GUI configuration tool about 2 years ago. > > But this is not the correct approach. The backends and the backend > > configuration files have to come in a way that all scanners work > > without any user interaction. The

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-15 Thread Yves Duret
Oliver Rauch writes: > I also thought about a sane GUI configuration tool about 2 years ago. > But this is not the correct approach. The backends and the backend > configuration files have to come in a way that all scanners work > without any user interaction. The sane standard allows this. > >

[sane-devel] GUI for sane configuration

2002-04-15 Thread Oliver Rauch
Richard wrote: > > It's nice to think ahead and look forward. > But how about simplifying the backend setup ? > Henning I did not answer your previous answer as to what i meant. > First printconf gui is a simple interface to make printer setup easy. > Yes i do understand that there are manuals and