Skanlite (was Glimpse) and libksane

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Kåre Särs wrote:
> What is the status of the inclusion of Skanlite and libksane in to
> kdegraphics? What needs to be done to be included into kdegraphics?

i'm a little concerned about putting an app in kdegraphics that probably 
relatively few people actually have a use for (though those who do probably 
really appreciate it being available).

i'd much rather see this kind of title in extragear/graphics/ do it's audience 
being a significantly small % of all desktops. i'm attempting to keep 
kdegraphics as "useful tiny utilities and used-by-most-people applications", 
and extragear-released-with-kde4 as "quality apps useful to a specific 
audience".

(kfax is really even worse in this regard, but has been grandparented in on a 
short-term basis until okular can fully take over. it probably should have 
been moved to extragear in any case.)

the scanning library is more generally interesting as a large number of apps 
have interest in such a thing to drive scanning features. that i can see 
ending up in kdegraphics, but we still have to figure out exactly what's 
going on with libkscan, libkscan-in-the-work-branch and libksane.

which apps use libksane right now besides Skanlite?

if the new libkscan will be dropped in favour of libksane, then we can 
deprecate libkscan in kdegraphics and start prepping libksane to the be 
replacement recommendation.

best would be to have a couple of potential consumers of libksane outside of 
Skanlite look into it and give it their approval before moving it into 
kdegraphics.

so, to sum up:

* libksane, when it is ready and if we have consensus between you and Jonathan 
Martin to standardize on that one, to kdegraphics. deprecates libkscan

* glimpse to extragear/graphics/, marked for release with the regular kde4 
extragear tarballs

sound ok?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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