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<h1>Re: Too many options for xscanimage</h1>
<b>Bernd Schroeder</b> (<a href="mailto:bernd@aquila.muc.de"><i>bernd@aquila.muc.de</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 23 Nov 1998 23:29:57 +0100</i>
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Hi,<br>
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On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:31:26AM -0800, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
<i>&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; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; I am working an a new frontend that solves this problem, but</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; it will take some days until I can publish a</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; pre-alpha-version of it. I think in 1-2 weeks I will have</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; the first version ready. I will send a mail about it into</i><br>
<i>&gt; Oliver&gt; the sane-devel-list!</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I'm not sure I'd call this "solved". Yeah, it solves the _space_</i><br>
<i>&gt; issue, but not the complexity issue. There is a danger that SANE</i><br>
<i>&gt; backend writers go "options nuts" and just make every knob and bit in</i><br>
<i>&gt; a scanner a separate option without much thinking. In the interest of</i><br>
<i>&gt; simplicity of use, we should pay attention to user interface design</i><br>
<i>&gt; issues. Are the options we include really all needed? If not, how</i><br>
<i>&gt; can we simplify things?</i><br>
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I have just included another "option nut" into the microtek2 backend for<br>
the next release, but it is configurable in the configuration file,<br>
whether this option is active or not. Normally I would not have included<br>
this option, but there are users, who asked for it.<br>
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I am planning to do so for some other, already existing, options, too.<br>
The primary reason for doing this was indeed the height of the<br>
xscanimage window, but this discussion shows, that useability issues <br>
should play a greater role.<br>
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So, is this a reasonable way to go, to make it configurable, whether<br>
options are active, with a "simple" set of options activated per default ?<br>
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Bernd<br>
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