[sane-devel] more actions fore sane 1.1

[René Rebe]

Hi,

On Sunday 02 March 2008 20:39:32 Oliver Rauch wrote:
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 02.03.2008, 18:14 +0100 schrieb René Rebe:
> 
> > Not really. TWAIN also has the DataSource, the backend driver, a
> > DataSourceManager multiplexing between the sources and the
> > applications, and the frontend applications. The architecture is
> > mostly the same. And yes, the data sources can be user interfae-
> > less.
> 
> This is correct, but you can not use frontend A with driver B. And AFAIK
> almost all TWAIN drivers do not work with disabled user interface, at

For proper support on OS X (e.g. by Apple's apps thru Image Capture)
the source must support the userinterface less mode.

> least I got this information some years ago from the chairman of TWAIN.

Might be the case a decade ago under Windows, yes. Some still
don't today, yes. However, this does not stop us from using it properly
in an open source SANE replacement.

> So there is missing the frontend level when you disable the
> userinterface in the driver.

The frontend is the application, just as with SANE???

> With the existing TWAIN drivers you can not do what you can do with SANE
> and what SANE is planned for:
> use any frontend with any backend.

Yes, as with TWAIN, use a TWAIN application with any TWAIN Data Source.

> > PS: Can you please conform to list netiquete and reply to the original
> > authors of a mail? I do not have the time to poll all my sorted list boxes
> > all the time just for users who to nod know their "reply all" button /
> > keybinding.
> 
> When you like I will reply to _all_ for your mails now.
> Several sane-devel people complain when you do this because they don`t
> like it because they get the mails twice.
> I also don`t like this, so please would you answer only to _the list_
> not to _all_ in my case (or may be in the case of sane-devel).

Never noticed complains, only noticed that I constly loose interests
in SANE threads when I do not receive respones in my inbox while
working on code.

Whatever.

Have a nice Sunday evening,

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