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<h1>Re: Too many options for xscanimage</h1>
<b>Oliver Rauch</b> (<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE"><i>oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</i></a>)<br>
<i>Tue, 24 Nov 1998 17:30:52 +0100</i>
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Bernd Schroeder wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Hi,</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:31:26AM -0800, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 18:18:58 +0100, Oliver Rauch &lt;<a href="mailto:oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE">oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Oliver&gt; I am working an a new frontend that solves this problem, but</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Oliver&gt; it will take some days until I can publish a</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Oliver&gt; pre-alpha-version of it. I think in 1-2 weeks I will have</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Oliver&gt; the first version ready. I will send a mail about it into</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; Oliver&gt; the sane-devel-list!</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; I'm not sure I'd call this "solved". Yeah, it solves the _space_</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; issue, but not the complexity issue. There is a danger that SANE</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; backend writers go "options nuts" and just make every knob and bit in</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; a scanner a separate option without much thinking. In the interest of</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; simplicity of use, we should pay attention to user interface design</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; issues. Are the options we include really all needed? If not, how</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; can we simplify things?</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; I have just included another "option nut" into the microtek2 backend for</i><br>
<i>&gt; the next release, but it is configurable in the configuration file,</i><br>
<i>&gt; whether this option is active or not. Normally I would not have included</i><br>
<i>&gt; this option, but there are users, who asked for it.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; I am planning to do so for some other, already existing, options, too.</i><br>
<i>&gt; The primary reason for doing this was indeed the height of the</i><br>
<i>&gt; xscanimage window, but this discussion shows, that useability issues</i><br>
<i>&gt; should play a greater role.</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; So, is this a reasonable way to go, to make it configurable, whether</i><br>
<i>&gt; options are active, with a "simple" set of options activated per default ?</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
<i>&gt; Bernd</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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Hi Bernd,Hi David,<br>
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I don`t know if this should be included into the backend.<br>
May be we should move this to the frontend and make a function to<br>
disable (make invisible) some options!<br>
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Bye<br>
Oliver<br>
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