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<STRONG>From:</STRONG> Oliver Rauch (<A HREF="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE?Subject=Re:%20quick%20note%20from%20the%20TWAIN/SANE%20meeting%20at%20OLS&In-Reply-To=&lt;398A8636.26105991@wolfsburg.de&gt;"><EM>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</EM></A>)<BR>
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Hi David,
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<P>at first let me say thanks that you found the time for the meeting with the
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TWAIN people and for representing the SANE project.
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<P><P><P><EM>&gt; ---there will need
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; to be one GUI frontend for each major toolkit in use (Motif, GTK, Qt,
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<EM>&gt; Win32 come to mind). If TWAIN-on-SANE is done properly, it should be
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; possible to &quot;plug in&quot; a different GUI frontend relatively easily
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<EM>&gt; (perhaps not on the fly, but at least through simple recompilation).
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<P>I agree. I don`t see any problems if we have a gtk, a qt, a motif ---
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or should be we better talk about windows systems: a X11, a WIN32, a GGI
<BR>
and a text based frontend.
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<P>A lot can be covered by qt and gtk wich run on X11 and WIN32.
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<P>Like xsane already shows it is no great problem to port a frontend
<BR>
written for unix/X11+gtk to run on Windows+gtk.
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<P><P><EM>&gt; Mark and Jon offered to start working on a prototype for
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; TWAIN-on-SANE. I offered them help with constructing a GUI builder
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; based on our existing GTK frontends (probably xsane).
</EM><BR>
<P>The main problem is - I think - the definition of the inter-process-comunication
<BR>
between the application and the sane-frontend.
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<P>Did you discuss that, were there any suggestions?
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<P><P><EM>&gt; Also, Mark and Jon said that the scanner vendors really like to be
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; able to customize the look of the scanner GUI.
</EM><BR>
<P>I think in the moment each scanner vendor does write it's own GUI.
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So if they want to have a totally different look they are free to write
<BR>
their own GUI.
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<P><P><EM>&gt; Slightly fancier would be to have a simple language that
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<EM>&gt; would control how and where each SANE option gets laid out in the
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<EM>&gt; device dialog. Of course, a driver vendor could also feel free to
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; implement a GUI from scratch if they want full customization, but that
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<EM>&gt; would be a fair amount of work. I think some level of scriptability
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; would provide a very good tradeoff between custom look and a uniform
</EM><BR>
<EM>&gt; user experience.
</EM><BR>
<P>It should be simple to change the gtk-style-settings in dependance of the backend.
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(and to add a logo).
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We also could add an info field (sane2.0) to the options that gives the backend the
<BR>
chance to e.g. requests that a range is displayed as slider or text-entry-field, ...
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but already this can make it hard for the frontend to create a good looking outfit.
<BR>
<P>Bye
<BR>
Oliver
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