Gnome Scan Technology Preview
June 21, 2006
The work on Gnome Scan API and UI is going on. I work on a quite well designed API and start building a GnomeScanDialog and a GnomeScannerSelector widgets. As a first step is done, I release gnomescan-0.0.1.
What is implemented :
- Devices and Device’s option probe.
- Device selector updated on “probe-done” signal. If you have only one device, the selector is hidden.
- Device selection and “scanner-selected” signal.
- Preliminary handle of “ok” response to trigger acquisition
GnomeScan already have a nice feature : you can choose dynamically a device without reprobe. GnomeScan use signals to propagate choices and actions.
You can see screenshot at http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/captures/gnome/flegita and download at http://bersace03.free.fr/pub/GNOME/Scan/Releases/.
Next step is basic acquisition using signals to inform both acquisition status and sent picture.
Étienne.
June 21, 2006 at 11:42 pm
Hi,
maybe you are aware of it, but in 2003, the late Mark Finlay worked on scan GUI mockups. Maybe they are of some help. I only found two on archive.org:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030921090111/sisob.tuxfamily.org/archives/gnome-scan-7.png
http://web.archive.org/web/20030920064005/sisob.tuxfamily.org/screenshots/Screenshot-Glade-2.png
Alan Horkan may have saved more of those.
Cheers,
Colin Marquardt