Glimpse in kdereview

Kåre Särs kare.sars at kolumbus.fi
Fri Mar 28 12:02:19 GMT 2008


On Thursday 27 March 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> 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.
>
Then I think kdegraphics :)

> But you must rename Glimpse.
Any suggestions? :)


/Kåre




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