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<h1>Re: Too many options for xscanimage</h1>
<b>David Mosberger-Tang</b> (<a href="mailto:David.Mosberger@acm.org"><i>David.Mosberger@acm.org</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:00:12 -0800</i>
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<i>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Mon, 23 Nov 1998 10:26:26 +0100 (MET), Manuel Panea &lt;<a href="mailto:mpd@rzg.mpg.de">mpd@rzg.mpg.de</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
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Manuel&gt; The number of settable options has got so long that the<br>
Manuel&gt; xscanimage window is too high to fit on my screen<br>
Manuel&gt; (1024x768). Is there any solution for this? I saw that other<br>
Manuel&gt; backends like Mustek or Umax also have lots of options. How<br>
Manuel&gt; do they look like, then?<br>
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Umh, that sounds bad. Are all those options really needed? I suspect<br>
a user interface as complex as this would be confusing to first time<br>
users anyhow, no? Anyhow, you could use "advanced" options to hide<br>
some of the less frequently used options. A more general solution<br>
would be to go back to using a GTK notebook so you can select<br>
different pages of options. However, back when we had that, I did not<br>
like it very much because its awkward if you can't see all relevant<br>
options on a single page.<br>
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Again, to me the more interesting question is why does that scanner<br>
have that many options and should they really all be exposed to the<br>
user?<br>
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--david<br>
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