Gnome Scan

Hi, I’m very happy with feedback from 0.5.93 release. I merged 3 patches from Ross Burton and got translation updates. I decide to provide a new RC release due to the big amout of bug fixes this release has : Migrate to new GTK tooltip API. Depends on GTK 2.12 Added blurb for PNG compression level option in [...]

Hi, I’m very pleased to announce the availability of Gnome Scan 0.5.93. It’s a very good release, it’s not 0.6 only because i want to wait until hard code freeze in order to get more translation, and feedback. This annoucement include 0.5.92 version ... [More] which was released monday. Clean preview handling allowing to use hardware capability Manual page orientation [...] [Less]

Hi, Gnome Scan hit revision 500 with a brand new feature : automatic per app settings saving in GConf. To get this properly done, i had to hunt ref/unref bug (r499). This mean that gnome-scan is cleaner while having one more feature. Options are stored as /apps/gnome-scan/%app%/%option% . I’m wondering which key would be better. If ever [...]

Hi everyone, I promised you 0.6 for march. It’s going bad for that. 0.5.4 got few feedbacks. I have bug reports by private mail or as comment on the blog which really is noisy rather than useful. Since Fall 2007, i work on websites and Linux PPC hacking. This left Gnome Scan outside the tracks. Once the [...]

Hi, One anonymous comment worries about SANE 1.0.19 support by Gnome Scan. Well, i don’t have to do anything to support this bugfix release, please ask smart question to the right people, for instance your distribution. However, i’m very concerned ... [More] about SANE future. SANE is about to plan a 1.2 release including updated well-known options, additionnal frame [...] [Less]

Hi, After holidays and slow work, if finaly release 0.5.4 including processing infrastruture and rotation. There is other enhancement and bug fixes detailed in the NEWS file. This release is in sync with GEGL r1840. GEGL might provide a 0.0.16 release for march, i wish Gnome Scan 0.6 will arrive sync in march. Thanks to Gnome wonderful [...]

Hi, So, the past few days, i worked to get my iMac G5 iSight to work properly. I wrote a linux windfarm platform driver (thanks to Benjamin Herrenschmidt for mentoring), i ported iSight driver and produces iSight firmware tools. I also helped Alex Deuscher to add support for X600 Pro in radeon. I commited some fixes and [...]

Hi, That’s bad news, but i’m busy on other projects. I wrote cifrado, a french scouting software. Then i developped the website of my scouting group : suf1520.free.fr. Finally, i’m developping Linux PowerMac 12,1 windfarm driver. I own an iMac G5 rev C for two years and Linux still does not run smoothly on it. I [...]

Hi everyone, For a few days, i’ve been working on packaging properly babl, gegl and gnome-scan for the new PPA launchpad service. Finally, i got a good packaging and a usable version of Gnome Scan. So no packages for 0.5.2, i provide latest SVN ... [More] version ! Here you are : deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bersace/ubuntu gutsy universe deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bersace/ubuntu gutsy universe Update: [...] [Less]

Hi everyone, With the availability of 2.20, i took the time to consider Gnome Scan inclusion into Gnome. My main concern about that is that Gegl is unstable, both API and behaviour. I decided not to propose Gnome Scan for inclusion. I rather decided to follow Gnome timeline. This mean that 0.6 won’t land for Christmas, [...]