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<h1>Re: Too many options for xscanimage</h1>
<b>Oliver Rauch</b> (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE"><i>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</i></a>)<br>
<i>Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:26:56 +0100</i>
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David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:18:58 +0100, Oliver Rauch &lt;<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE">oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; I am working an a new frontend that solves this problem, but</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; it will take some days until I can publish a</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; pre-alpha-version of it. I think in 1-2 weeks I will have</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; the first version ready. I will send a mail about it into</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; the sane-devel-list!</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; I'm not sure I'd call this "solved". Yeah, it solves the _space_</i><br>
<i>&gt; issue, but not the complexity issue. There is a danger that SANE</i><br>
<i>&gt; backend writers go "options nuts" and just make every knob and bit in</i><br>
<i>&gt; a scanner a separate option without much thinking. In the interest of</i><br>
<i>&gt; simplicity of use, we should pay attention to user interface design</i><br>
<i>&gt; issues. Are the options we include really all needed? If not, how</i><br>
<i>&gt; can we simplify things?</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; (I'm not saying that the space issue shouldn't be solved. Maybe what</i><br>
<i>&gt; we should do is just add a sentence or two to backend/GUIDE that</i><br>
<i>&gt; talks about the user interface design issue.)</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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Yes, you are absolutly right.<br>
I myself prefer only the absolute necessery options in the "Option"-window.<br>
E.g: the umax-backend supports a lot of options, but there is no scanner that really uses<br>
all of them and the less important ones are "advanced".<br>
I don't want to encourage the backend-programmes to push all options in one window,<br>
but I want to encourage them to implement as much functions of the scanner as possible.<br>
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What I wanted do say is that there will be a frontend that can handle all options on small<br>
desktops, too.<br>
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Bye<br>
Oliver<br>
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