Oliver> I think in the moment each scanner vendor does write it's
Oliver> own GUI. So if they want to have a totally different look
Oliver> they are free to write their own GUI.
David.Mosberger@acm.org said:
> It is interesting how scanner vendors insist on writing their own
> frontends. Graphics cards vendors seem to be able to live with the
> fact that, on Windows, all they can do is add a couple of tabs to the
> "Display Properties" dialog. I think the Graphics card approach is
> MUCH better because it gives users a (mostly) consistent user
> interface, while still giving vendors a certain level of
> differentiation
Well, I think what scanner vendors in general want to do is be able to
write their own dialog box that the user can use to configure the scanner
in magical and scanner specific ways. At the TWAIN level, that sort of
thing does make sense, I think. (At the SANE level, it does not as private
tags are the way to handle these. I imagine this scanner specific dialog
can use the standard SANE protocol to communicate.)
Of course, I'm coming from the perspective of a high-performance scanner
manufacturer where $0.05 worth of labor won't kill us, but not having
the desired convenient access to Nifty Feature X really hurts.
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