Heya,
Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release, and saw this: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan
gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners easier in GNOME and Fedora in general.
Any takers?
I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default installation.
Cheers
/Bastien, who doesn't own a scanner
Hey,
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Bastien Nocera bnocera@redhat.com wrote:
Heya,
Yesterday, I was browsing Ubuntu's "Blueprints" for their next release, and saw this: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gnomescan
gnome-scan is already packaged by Deji, but I gather that more integration work could be done to make setting up and using scanners easier in GNOME and Fedora in general.
Any takers?
I think a good start would be making a list of problems seen in setting up scanners (additional packages required, tweaks), and make sure that gnome-scan and the necessary plugins are installed in a default installation.
Would certainly be nice to have something reasonable happen when I connect a scanner and hit the hardware scan button.
But what should that be? From a quick look at the (possibly out of date) gnome-scan web page it seems to me that it is trying to be an application. That approach may have similar problems to those of sound-juicer. Basically this is somewhat hard to solve if we don't have a rhythmbox for photos... unless we do something like the screenshot tool where we offer a few fixed options: 1. Save to Photos 2. Upload to Flickr 3. Upload to Picasa 4. Save as PDF
Incidentally whatever we do we should do the same for cameras...
Jon
On 06/06/2009 05:19 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
But what should that be? From a quick look at the (possibly out of date) gnome-scan web page it seems to me that it is trying to be an application. That approach may have similar problems to those of sound-juicer. Basically this is somewhat hard to solve if we don't have a rhythmbox for photos... unless we do something like the screenshot tool where we offer a few fixed options:
- Save to Photos
- Upload to Flickr
- Upload to Picasa
- Save as PDF
The operations I do the most are: 1. send the image by mail (but I prefer to save first so I can send more than one file in each email); 2. edit the image with GIMP.
I don't think is a good idea for us to promote by default the usage of proprietary services (flickr, picasaweb). Maybe by default we should offer uploading by sftp and to gallelry2 and flickr and picasaweb be installable plug-ins.
Incidentally whatever we do we should do the same for cameras...
Cameras have a different usage pattern, usually you download from the camera a large amount of images and do something with them (selection, cropping) before publishing.
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:40 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 06/06/2009 05:19 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
But what should that be? From a quick look at the (possibly out of date) gnome-scan web page it seems to me that it is trying to be an application. That approach may have similar problems to those of sound-juicer. Basically this is somewhat hard to solve if we don't have a rhythmbox for photos... unless we do something like the screenshot tool where we offer a few fixed options:
- Save to Photos
- Upload to Flickr
- Upload to Picasa
- Save as PDF
The operations I do the most are:
- send the image by mail (but I prefer to save first so I can send more
than one file in each email);
Some nautilus-sendto integration would be in order then. I did this for Evolution, so you can right-click on attachments and have them sent via Bluetooth, or another person straight away, without having to save them first on the hard disk.
- edit the image with GIMP.
That's a given.
I don't think is a good idea for us to promote by default the usage of proprietary services (flickr, picasaweb). Maybe by default we should offer uploading by sftp and to gallelry2 and flickr and picasaweb be installable plug-ins.
It's pretty much the same architecture. We should be using Conduit for this (Conduit ships with a Totem plugin that allows you to upload the currently playing video to Youtube, without going through a web browser, or another application).
Incidentally whatever we do we should do the same for cameras...
Cameras have a different usage pattern, usually you download from the camera a large amount of images and do something with them (selection, cropping) before publishing.
Red-eye removal, people tagging, keyword tagging... Different usage pattern.
On 06/29/2009 08:30 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 11:40 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
On 06/06/2009 05:19 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
Incidentally whatever we do we should do the same for cameras...
Cameras have a different usage pattern, usually you download from the camera a large amount of images and do something with them (selection, cropping) before publishing.
Red-eye removal, people tagging, keyword tagging... Different usage pattern.
In my experience, most of the time you scan documents, not photos. These days with the photography going digital, scanning photos is really a corner case.
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