GNOME Scan

Hi,

One year later, i have to admit that GNOME Scan wasn’s as dead as i though. Thanks to Philipp SADLEDER, the team triaged bugs, kept master uptodate with GNOME hosting and dependencies, etc. I decided to release a quite stable snapshot of master, even if no fundamental features were added, to allow further developments.

This release was built with vala 0.7.6. It support SANE 1.0.20 which require some more controls from the frontend. Some bugs were fixed and minor features were added. I also added unit testing framework. Here are some details :

• Added option value preselection. Preselect resolution, papersize and format ;
• Compute scanner icon (e.g. multifunction printer) ;
• Support pixel device (e.g. webcam) ;
• Handle hardware extent. Filter papersize not fitting hardware extent ;
• Fixed bugs:
  • inverted black&white on 1bit scan.
  • perpetual waiting cursor and call to null GdkWindow in GnomeScanDialog.

You will find sources at usual place :

• http://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-scan/0.7/

No binary packages are planned. Help is still welcome. Next step is to write tests and continue development of features ! There are some news to go, stay tuned 🙂

Regards,

Étienne

Hi,

Finally, i got GNOME Scan 0.6 ready and sync with GNOME 2.22. This release is a big milestone. Let me expose you all the changes since 0.4.

• Completely redesigned and rewritten
• Modularize all the acquisition pipeline from the scanner to the sink.
• Dynamic pipeline plugins parameter list exposed to the UI
• Based on GEGL for huge sized image handling and much much more
• multi thread anywhere : probing, acquisition and more
• acquisition from images
• automatic per application scan settings saving in GConf
• optionnal automatic color enhancement
• available in 15 languages
• Streamlined GUI for mass acquisition
• extended SANE driver support and workarounds
• Regression: no PDF nor JPEG saving

Please make a big welcome to this milestone, ask your distro to publish it along GNOME 2.22 and report ideas, bugs and more for the future.

• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-scan/0.6
  
• Available in my PPA for gutsy and hardy.

As 0.6 says, the road is long before 1.0 which will be hopefully synced with GNOME version number. Amongs other things here are the plans for the future:

• Consolidate code and API. This is important before producing bindings, tutorial, etc. for wider adoption from developers.
  • Split dialog code for better reusability
  • Review preview UI management
  • improve option handling, especially for high level option like PaperSize, etc.
  • Improve device handling: status/error reporting, opening in seperate thread, etc.
• Merge scan dialog and acquisition dialog, allow to configure next scan without relaunching dialog
• Use hal scanner API and hotplug smoothness as well as signal monitoring
• Fully migrate to GeglOperation, this avoid us to split the progress bar in 3 stage.
• Support sheet-fed scanners, webcam, etc.
• PDF, jpeg, printing and more for flegita.

I started some weeks ago the work on hal-scanner. It’s going well, i’ll submit it to HAL and take it in account as soon as possible in gnome-scan. Packages will always be in my PPA.

Don’t hesitate to report well commented bug for GNOME Scan . You know i really want to finally fix this big whole in GNOME and desktops in general about scanning. Your use case, your ideas, your hardware specific behaviour/feature interest me a lot. Reporting all that in bugzilla allow me to have a high view of all the neds and design properly for most uses. Thanks

Regards,

Étienne.

Hi,

I’m very happy with feedback from 0.5.93 release. I merged 3 patches from Ross Burton and got translation updates. I decide to provide a new RC release due to the big amout of bug fixes this release has :

• Migrate to new GTK+ tooltip API. Depends on GTK+ 2.12
• Added blurb for PNG compression level option in flegita.
• Translate application name in about flegita dialog.
• Focus Forward button in GnomeScanAcquisitionDialog.
• Fixed hidden option exposed in UI (bug #519331).
• Don’t depends on libgnome and libgnomeui, thanks to Ross Burton (bug #519344). Fixed untranslated application name.
• Don’t version modules, thanks to Ross Burton (bug #519350).
• Cleaned up build system, thanks to Ross Burton.
• Fixed GSFile backend not updated for a while. Migrated to GEGL 0.0.16, etc.
• Use explicit gettext domain in library rather than using application defined one.

Updated translation from Jorge González (es), Étienne Bersac (fr) and Daniel Nylander (sv)

Sources are in GNOME FTP, Packages are available in my PPA. I may provide 0.5.95 monday march the 3rd and will release 0.6 monday march the 10th as promised. Please report bugs and translate 🙂

Étienne.