Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM Sam Varshavchik mrsam@courier-mta.com wrote:
In gimp I'm missing the File/Create option to pull an image from a scanner. Google results mention the xsane-gimp package, but dnf in F42 knows nothing about it.
I did find /usr/share/sane/xsane/doc/sane-xsane-gimp-doc.html that tells me to manually create a symbolic link. Huh? That's not progress. Is that really how to feed xsane to gimp, these days?
It seems like xsane-gimp should update the symlink for you during installation. Did that not happen?
Not per https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/xsane/c/2cc8bf4 (Drop GIMP plugin for Fedora >= 41, 2024-10-13) and the follow-up which fixes the reversed values in that commit.
I would guess that's because gimp-3.x and the xsane-gimp plugin don't play well together or, more optimistically, that it's somehow not actually needed anymore. But I don't use xsane and haven't done more than poke the package history quickly.
I see https://yingtongli.me/git/gimp-xsanecli mentioned in a few places as a Gimp 3 plugin for XSane. I haven't looked at that code, but perhaps someone interested can review it and work on getting it integrated with the Fedora gimp and xsane packages.