On Wednesday 07 March 2012 10:59:50 todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > On 07.03.12 10:23:32, todd rme wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Klaas Freitag wrote: > >> > On 06.03.2012 18:02, todd rme wrote: > > [...] > > = > >> > These kind of things. Not sure if a kio is cool for any of these. > >> = > >> A gui able to do all the things you listed would necessarily be > >> extremely complicated and likely difficult to use, unless most of the > >> tasks were automated push-button affairs. In the latter case, there > >> is little advantage over a kio slave. I would think that a kio slave > >> would be more natural, since users would not need to know terminology > >> or the menu structure. > > = > > Maybe I didn't use enough of the more fancy kio-slaves, but I have a > > hard time imagining how I'd be able to use this with say konqueror. I'd > > go to > > = > > kscan:/// > > = > > And then see whats been scanned, but how do I initiate a scan? Do I need > > to go to some special url? If so, how do I trigger the OCR creation > > after scanning? > = > To activate a scan of an image, you either drag the image file in the > kio slave to another folder, or you open it in a program (either by > clicking or using the right-click menu). In the case of dragging it > to a folder, it will be automatically scanned and saved in the > destination folder without the user needing to do anything else. In > the case where you open it in a program, it will probably be scanned > to a temporary folder or stored in memory and then opened in the > program, once again without the user doing anything else. > = > In the case of OCR, it would be the same, except a temporary image > file woulds be scanned, OCRed, and deleted (or again stored in > memory). > = > This, at least, is how the CD kio slave does it. > = If somebody is interested in making such a kio slave, for simple usecases, = I = would say go ahead and scratch your itch :) I do have a some doubts about t= he = usability tho. 1) You would have to "refresh" the view to get a new preview of new photos = placed on the scanner and the automatic photo finder is bound to fail = sometimes and you would be unable to select the correct part of the images. 2) You have options (folders?) - scan mode: grayscale, color - resolution 50 100 150 300 600 1200 2400 4800 ... - source: flatbed, automatic document feeder, transparency unit, ... - how would you adjust gamma if available - contrast/light... - ... 3) Multipage scanning from ADF can not have a preview... For simple point and shoot it might work some of the time but I'm not sure = the = amount of bug reports for heuristics failures would be fun to go through ;) I think a Qt ORC library would be more than welcome also for the kio slave = and = that could be the main target for the GSoC. K=E5re >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscrib= e <<