Delaying Gnome Scan 0.6
September 25, 2007
Hi everyone,
With the availability of 2.20, i took the time to consider Gnome Scan inclusion into Gnome. My main concern about that is that Gegl is unstable, both API and behaviour. I decided not to propose Gnome Scan for inclusion. I rather decided to follow Gnome timeline. This mean that 0.6 won’t land for Christmas, but rather for February/March 2008. Thus, i will implement a bit more feature than planned like options saving/restoring.
There is some good news in gnome-scan development for the past few days. I solved some bugs and reworked the processing mecanism. Now Gnome Scan build a unique Gegl pipeline an launch it. To achieve this goal, i commited a new Gegl operation : “convert-format” and fixed some other bugs in “save-buffer”. The next step is to design “processor” plugin to hook between scanner and sink.
I’m a very proud Gegl user and (tiny) contributor. This is the magic of libre software. Related project are not frozen, you can always contribute in order to these project more suitable for other projects :).
Expect some more news about Gnome Scan in the following days 🙂
September 25, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Remember to show us some screenshots demostrating the application! 🙂
September 25, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Smart and clever decision. Getting Gnome Scan ready for spring release, for next Ubuntu LTS, for next Debian release is just right way to do it.
Post regularly about your success, and when I will get close to some scanners I will test your code.