From kde-devel  Fri Oct 16 19:49:39 2009
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:49:39 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Volunteering to port Kooka to KDE4
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On October 16, 2009, Klaas Freitag wrote:
> Does that make sense?

imho, completely :) picking the tasks missing from the scope of an applicat=
ion=20
like skanlite and creating something that does those things will probably=20
result in a much higher quality app at the end.

as a fairly regular user of skanlite (as i was with kooka before it), i can=
=20
note that skanlite already offers most things on your list (e.g. scanner=20
settings, a sharable widget for apps to use..), but what it does lack are=20
things like:

* batch processing
* OCR

other things like image manipulation and probably even imagine collection=20
management probably belong in a different application that can do a proper =
job=20
of those tasks, e.g. krita or gwenview.

but a batch processing app that can then launch an image manager / manipula=
tor=20
would be really nice for those "i have 10 things to scan *sigh*" things.

one thing i wished kooka had back in the day was a light weight scripting=20
language so that i could automate certain post-scanning tasks when doing=20
larger batches .. would be easy with QScript today

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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