Scanner button add-on

Donald Straney burntfuse at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 18:05:26 PDT 2007


> Regarding your second question I actually added an item to the TODO list
> some time ago
>
>  http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=commitdiff;h=6992f57a90e9e2a5b9f9c008204f2ef953d4db63;hp=ac8bf1edd90549875c2c0a9d8601a6f8a9d3e8c7
>
> to mention that we need singleton addon's - this feature will be in
> 0.5.10 which is out in a few months (major feature is PolicyKit
> support).

That's exactly what it would need, thanks.

> I guess until that feature is
> available you can just use a normal addon and only use one scanner yes?

Good idea, for now it can just open the first SANE device it finds.
It's far from optimal of course, but realistically I'm sure it'll be
fine for most people, since who has two scanners plugged in at once?

Donald Straney


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