[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[m. allan noah]

On 5/26/08, Étienne Bersac <bersace03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  > but what is the frontend going to do with that, read the user's
>  > setting, then turn the data back around and set the resolution and
>  > duplex options? it seems that would be better done in the backend
>
> > itself.
>
>  But the frontend should be aware that the device has changed some value,
>  at least in order to update UI. I think that simply adding cap
>  HARD_SELECT should be enough to tell the frontend : poll this if you
>  want to know when the user change the value of this option from the
>  device.

ahh, but the option cannot be both HARD and SOFT_SELECT at the same
time. for this very reason, i dont actually use the duplex button on
the older fujitsu machines to change the duplex setting in the
backend.

allan
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