Skanlite

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Kåre Särs wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Jonathan Marten wrote:
> >
> > For the moment, though, I'm guessing that libkscan will have to stay
> > in kdegraphics even if no further development of it is planned - it is
> > used by koffice and 3.5 kolorpaint, unless these have been
> > ported/converted already.
> >
> Yesterday i began thinking about making a plugin/service based on libksane and 
> this morning I woke up early and figured I could just as well get up and do a 
> first try. Before I went to work I had a working plugin :) It works with at 
> least kolorpaint4 (some rough edges still)
> 
> I borrowed the .desktop from libkscan (and the class and lib names)
> 
> Can there be more than one scanservice at a time?

As soon as there's something that provides 16 bit/channel scanning functionality,
I'll port KOffice to use that, subject to time pressure, of course. It's not
necessary to keep old libraries around for compatibility with KOffice.

Boudewijn