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Idea #300: Install a better scanning program by default

Written by picpak the 29 Feb 08 at 00:24. Category: Multimedia. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Seriously, xsane terrifies me. I'm completely lost each time I use it. It reeks of that poorly designed early-90's hacker-app feel. There's Scanner Utility in Add/Remove, but it doesn't let me scan all of my scanner. Can we please have something similar to the scanning programs of Windows?
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Written by picpak the 29 Feb 08 at 00:24.
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Ubuwu wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 00:34
Gnomescan would be nice to have.

jacen-me wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:54
Yea flegita is a perfect scanning software, it should be implemented in 8.10

BenjaminM wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 20:28
Yeah Xscan is horror. gscan2pdf is very nice if you want a pdf. But something similar for graphics (and pdf) would be great.

mastro wrote on the 7 Mar 08 at 22:17
are you kidding????
Xsane is the best scanning program i've ever seen!
windows scanning programs usually sucks!

what are you talking about???

Truefire wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 22:37
Although @mastro is very emotional,
I agree.

As soon as I plugged in my EPSON Stylus to Ubuntu,
it had the drivers to, and did, scan and copy and image
in less than 3 min, using xsane.

With the included Windows app, it took about 10-15 min.

I'm afraid the person who started this thread needs to
simply explore the menus of the program, that's fundamental.

It's possible that he/she is scared of Outlook Express/Thunderbird and would demand an easier alternative.

I honestly don't mean to be rude,but some simply expect
a Media Center program for everything.

It would be nice, but it would need a complete desktop interface overhaul- not to mention program engine overhaul.


picpak wrote on the 9 Mar 08 at 02:51
Who, me? I love Thunderbird. I've never been a fan of Outlook though.

wladston wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 03:37
Xscan is a true nightmare, REAL old fashion, terrible UI, early 90's look. PLEASE, give me something more pleasant to work with!!

travist120 wrote on the 19 Mar 08 at 17:53
It reminds me of gimp. Back when I first tried gimp out, I had no Idea what I was to do. Gimp is REALLY powerful, but the interface in confusing. It's the same thing with xsane, REALLY powerful, but interface is confusing. I think that We should have gnome-scan by default because of that.

AlexandreProkoudine wrote on the 4 Apr 08 at 15:56
XSane is quite OK. But let's wait till gnome-scane will gain more features and then see if it's worth replacement.

@travist120

Maybe it's just your tasks were not worth running GIMP? I mean, some people try using Scribus for doing things they would have done faster in OOo Writer without learning principles of DTP ;-)

quirks wrote on the 4 Sep 08 at 19:14
AGREED! XSane is sooooo ugly and confusing. It may be poweful, but you can surely present powerful features in a more intuitive way which is consistent with the rest of the desktop.


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