Gnome and scan UI.

[Étienne Bersac <bersace03 free fr>]

Hello,

Obviously, xsane is not full HIG and does not fit well in the GNOME  
environment. I like xsane for its features, especially the ability to  
crop the picture before scanning. But many end users aren't able to  
use it correctly for basic task such as scanning photos, converting  
document to text, import data directly in Gimp, Abiword, OpenOffice  
or Gedit, etc. Note that xsane code is quite ugly. Xsane is more a  
gtk app than a Gnome app.

So, I'm wondering what to do to improve this. I think we need a  
library similar to libgnomeprint to manage scanners, their  
configurations (which may depend on the backend) and at least one HIG- 
compliant frontend to scan picture or import text (libgnomescanui ?).

As i'm quite a beginner in Gnome programming, I ask for here for  
help. Is anyone interrested to discuss such a project ?

Regards.