Simple Scan

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:22:38AM +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:14 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Nils Philippsen <nils at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Completely removing xsane/xsane-gimp from comps was totally uncalled
> > > for, I've added xsane again as optional and xsane-gimp conditional on
> > > gimp. Not seeking my input before doing so was just bad style, I've
> > > repeatedly asked on this list(*) to involve out-of-team-maintainers if
> > > you intend to do something to their components. It's really not that
> > > hard.
> > 
> > Good point Nils, apologies for that.
> 
> Accepted and sorry for harsh words :-).
> 
> >   I'm a bit pressed here trying to
> > sort out the image and unify the kickstart and comps.  xsane was one
> > of the random exclusions.
> > 
> > We could just make this change for F14 or not make it at all yet; any
> > other opinions?
> 
> Mind, I'm not against relegating xsane to not being the default, it is
> just to complicated for casual users.
> 
> As I said, I've made xsane an optional package and xsane-gimp a
> conditional based on gimp in comps. This way people that want to have
> the stand-alone xsane can choose to do so in the installer and people
> that choose gimp get the plugin automatically. For me that's sufficient,
> I don't think we need to wait until F-14 for that.
> 
> I'd ask of you to put something in the release notes, though, so people
> don't get surprised if they don't get xsane per default anymore when
> selecting the Graphics group.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Desktop_Beat#Simple_Scan_scanning_utility

There's some information there now about Simple Scan.  If anyone wants
to add to that, please do it as a separate paragraph -- that helps the
Docs team make things easier for the Translation teams.

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