Re: Xsane

[Gerry Tool <gstool earthlink net>]

Brian Anderson wrote:
> Perhaps because you can access it from the Gimp.  I asked this same 
> question in bugzilla and the removal is deliberate...

That's not a very sensible reason.  The Xsane interface itself is useful 
without Gimp.  For example, it can be used in the "Copy" mode to send a 
scanned document directly to the default system printer without the 
overhead of opening Gimp.

I just added a note to the bugzilla report 122985 to that effect.

Gerry Tool
> Gerry Tool wrote:
>
> > Bob Gill wrote:
> >
> > > You aren't wrong.  Xsane used to be in the graphics menu, but isn't. 
> > > Like gnome-session-properties it mysteriously disappeared from the
> > > menus.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:56, Neil B. Cohen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi - here's a dumb question - is xsane anywhere to be found in the
> > > > graphical menu heirarchy? I just installed a scanner, and I can run
> > > > xsane from the command line fine - but I don't see it in the start 
> > > > menu.
> > > > Am I missing it or is it really not there?
> >
> > just reported as bugzilla number 122985 in case you want to add any 
> > comments.
> >
> > Gerry Tool