Glimpse in kdereview

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Thu Mar 27 12:43:42 GMT 2008


On Wednesday 26 March 2008 23:16:38 Kåre Särs wrote:
> On Thursdayen den 27 March 2008 00:21:03 Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Kåre Särs <kare.sars at kolumbus.fi> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >  Yesterday I moved Glimpse from playground to kdereview.
> > >
> > >  Glimpse is a simple scan application that only scans and saves images
> > > (no OCR). Glimpse uses libksane from extragears (not libkscan).
> > >
> > >  The user documentation is not yet 100% ready, but
> > >  Anne-Marie Mahfouf is helping with that (Thanks).
> > >
> > >  The name is something I have been thinking about. I don't have
> > > anything against Glimpse, but there are 202000000 pages with that word
> > > on Google, sites with glimpse in the domain name and even other
> > > software with the same name. Kapture is a name suggestion that I like
> > > (got it from Dread Knight), but it has a bit of the same problem as
> > > Glimpse.
> > >
> > >
> > >  Regards,
> > >   Kåre Särs
> >
> > You forgot to say what module you are think Glimpse should be in. :)
>
> extragears/graphics or kdegraphics (kdegraphics would mean that libksane
> would have to move to).
>
> I would be happy either way :)
>
And either are fine.  It's really up to you and if you want to
follow the KDE release cycle.  Someone (you?) will need
to maintain libksane in either location.  Chances are 
you'll get more help if libksane is in kdegraphics.

But you must rename Glimpse. 








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