Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by Diederik van der Boor on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @00:27

> then again, i'm not sure why krita wouldn't fit that bill pretty well?

For the same reason I don't open want to open Digicam to just copy pictures from my camera to /mnt/data-dump/pictures/ I just want to get the job done, not open a fully fledged painting application. Following your logic, KSnapshot can be removed too in favor of krita, but this doesn't make sense to me either.

IMHO, it's newbie friendly to have a simple wizard with (1) scan preview > (2) select bounds, rotate > (3) scan > (4) save as, send by e-mail or post to flickr. Windows XP has a nice type of application for this, and it seams to be used a lot because it's simple.

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by Aaron J. Seigo on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @10:37

for everyone commenting about how badly this is needed, please read the whole thread.

note that i first say that a little scanner shell would be cool. then i say that we have something good enough for now. put the two together and you get:

it would be nice to have a little scanner shell, but we are ok for now even if we don't.

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by Achim Bohnet on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @17:13

All your required functionalities (and much more) are already
available as kipi-plugins (and therefore in gwenview
showimg, kphotoalbum, digikam and ksquirrelmail)

As gwenview will be part of KDE4 maybe an new option

gwenview --plugins scan

that start the plugin on gwenview startup ,wrapped in
a scan-images.desktop is all you want ;)

Achim

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by whatever noticed on Tuesday 19/Jun/2007, @10:31

~> gwenview
QGDict::hashAsciiKey: Invalid null key
KCrash: Application 'gwenview' crashing...

~> gwenview
libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc)
libkscan: WARNING: Trying to copy a not healthy option (no name nor desc)
KCrash: Application 'gwenview' crashing...

Still needs some work i guess :o)

If it is reproducable, i'll post a bug report about it

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by Martin Koller on Friday 22/Jun/2007, @04:21

For all who are not aware of it:
I recently added support for scanning into kolourpaint (in KDE3 and KDE4 of it)
kolourpaint is a nice, compact application which every normal user should be able to deal with.

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Re: "Kooka and kmrml are removed completely."
by MamiyaOtaru on Thursday 28/Jun/2007, @22:39

It is a nice app, but it isn't a scanning app. It's a doodling app, and not the first place someone will look for to scan something, and it contains a lot of functionality unneeded by someone who wants to scan something.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's nice that kolourpaint can scan, but it's hardly a replacement for a simple scanning app. For all the talk of making things easier and simpler for newbies, lumping functionality many people consider unrelated into now larger and more complex apps is precisely what one doesn't want to do.

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