[CREATE] Scanner Access No-longer Easy?

[Richard Hughes]

On 22 March 2012 21:21, Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com> wrote:
> This is kinda out of left field, but would there be any interest is having
> an LGM roundtable discussion about SANE and/or scanner support this year?
> Specifically, about whether not it needs fixing, a whole bunch more
> personpower, or even outright replacement?

Yes, SANE support is basically a giant hack in colord, see
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2012/03/12/sane-crashy-crashy/ for
details.

> I see a lot of individuals complaining about different
> aspects of the design and the API -- it probably can't hurt to have that
> discussion in one place and see what comes out of it.

I'm totally up for that. I've considered writing a "saned" dbus daemon
many times, but don't really have the time to maintain such a thing.

Richard