[Kde-imaging] [Gwenview-general] Scanning problems with gwenview

[Gerhard Kulzer]

On Monday 26 June 2006 19:15, Angelo Naselli wrote:
> Alle 12:22, domenica 25 giugno 2006, Aurelien Gateau ha scritto:
> > Le Mardi 20 Juin 2006 02:23, Adrian Jadic a écrit :
> > > I have an Epson 3170 Photo scanner
> > > the machine is an x86-32 (AMD 3000+) using Kubuntu 6.06 and SUSE 9.3
> > >
> > > This scanner works only with the epkowa non-free driver available from
> > > avasys. After installation of the driver Iscan works fine as does the
> > > command scanimage and xsane.
> > >
> > > Kooka and Gwenview however don't work.

I can confirm this behavior with my 3590 Perfection from Epson. Works fine 
with epkowa and snapscan and iscan/xsane, but kooka doesn't see the device.
Gerhard

> > > What I found strange is that many users of this scanner in Linux have
> > > complained that after updates the scanner failed to fire-up anymore.
> > >
> > > Gwenview and Kooka scan fine in SUSE 9.3 even though I have upgraded to
> > > the latest kde. However if I upgrade to suse 10.0 or 10.1 as well as
> > > Kubuntu 6.06 they don't work anymore and I can only scan with Iscan,
> > > scanimage and xsane.
> > >
> > > It appears that Kooka and libkscan are not supported anymore. Is it
> > > true? If this is the case, what will happen with the scanning plugin in
> > > Gwenview?
> >
> > I'm afraid I can't help you. You should ask to the maintainer of the KIPI
> > acquireimage plugin. Better send a message to the KIPI list:
> > kde-imaging at kde.org
> >
> > Regards
> >   Aurélien
>
> I believe we must take care of this here, if kooka/libkscan are not
> supported any more really, we should think to an alternative way...
>
> Angelo