Gnome Scan

Hi, The rewrite is going on. I can’t publish it yet because it is incomplete et break a lot of things. Anyway, i want you to know that the project is far from dead. I manage to work on it about few hours a day allowing to make some visible progress. These days, i almost finished the [...]

I’m very proud to announce the inclusion of Philipp Sadleder in GNOME Scan development team. His first commit replaced vapi with gir binding. Welcome Philipp ! Thanks to Philipp, GNOME Scan development wakes up. I’m learning to do few commits after work, trying not to spend all the night debugging ! I fixed a bug in [...]

Hi, This year, i’m no longer student. I sucessfuly pass exams and i’m now working as web developer at Nerim. I actually want to take to get GNOME Scan usable this year. Lukily, my employer is quite permissive about how I spend hours at Nerim.I plan to free each wednesday morning to have time for free [...]

Hi, I’m pretty busy with scouting and other stuff. Also vala seems not yet able to handle subnamespace and that break mixing C/GObject and vala (can’t call C/GObject code from Vala). This is pain. All these issues leads me to idle GNOME Scan for this summer. I’m quite disappointed because i don’t have time but i’m actually [...]

Hi, Next version of GNOME Scan will be 0.8, not 2.24. This show that GNOME Scan won’t be part of GNOME 2.24. A lot of you wonder why, and that’s a good question. GNOME Scan still immature. 0.8 will see a lot of API breaks. GNOME Scan also depends on GEGL, a far from stable project which [...]

Hi, I’m not good at following GNOME schedule. I do everything one or two month later :). I just started diving back in the development. I started by providing GEGL vala binding, without exactly knowing whether i will actually need it for GNOME Scan 0.8. Anyway, i activated vala in GNOME Scan build system. How long [...]

Hi, Thanks to Antoine JACOUTOT, GNOME Scan has now an official port in OpenBSD. Étienne.

Hi, Many thanks to Frederic Peters, GNOME Scan ref doc is now at library.gnome.org :  http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-scan/0.6/. If you fill adventurous, you could try writing a plugin for you prefered app or write a standalone app on top of ... [More] GNOME Scan. Beware that API is supposed to change for 0.8, in order to provide bindings (Gobject introspection [...] [Less]

Hi, Sometime, SANE is actually going to make me cry. Today, i posted opened three discusions at sane-devel. I finished the work on hal-scanner, a proof of concept for HAL scanner support. In order to be clearer, i splitted all i had to say in three discussion. Let me review each of them. HAL and scanners This is [...]

Hi, Finally, i got GNOME Scan 0.6 ready and sync with GNOME 2.22. This release is a big milestone. Let me expose you all the changes since 0.4. Completely redesigned and rewritten Modularize all the acquisition pipeline from the scanner to the sink. ... [More] Dynamic pipeline plugins parameter list exposed to the UI Based on GEGL for huge sized image handling [...] [Less]