[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Change default scanning application for hplip

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 13 October 2011 03:19, Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de> wrote:
>>>> As in my opinion xsane is quite complicated
>>>> and not user-friendly for scanning, i want to change the default to
>>>> simple-scan, to improve the user experience. All the others are kept,
>>>> maybe
>>>> replacing kooka by skanlite, only simple-scan would then be first in
>>>> search order.
>>>
>>> Sounds like a good idea.
>>
>> It doesn't integrate within gimp
>>
> You still can launch xsane from gimp, if you like, or do you mean
> that you can directly call gimp from xsane? Also please remember, this
> is only about the default scanning application for hplip (hp-scan).

xsane is ugly and needs a replacement.
simple-scan looks nice but cannot be called from within gimp.
Maybe should we just change the user workflow