I was out of town and didn't have access to a scanner, but now that I am back...
On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 00:05 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote:
said Jim via tde-users:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 06:33 (+0000), dep via tde-users wrote:
On 9/19/25 02:15, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users
users@trinitydesktop.org wrote:
Hm ... what makes you want to use anything but xsane?
The desire to get work done, in reasonably high quality. When I scan, I generally need to do a substantial number of scans -- say 900 negatives in both 35mm and 2 1/4 -- so establishing a workflow is important. Using xsane is certainly possible. So would be writing a book in KEdit or heaven help us, Kate.
Just out of curiosity, what workflow features that you find useful are missing from xsane?
Default path setting, for one.
I think you must live in a part of the universe where the laws of physics are different than where I live. When I give xsane a path to save a file in, it remembers the path for the following scans... even if I terminate xsane and run it again later.
I am curious as to whether your problem is just a "you" thing or whether my xsane somehow has features that yours doesn't. Maybe someone else reading this can chime in with information about whether their xsane has a problem with the default path setting.
Also, it is just clunky and unpleasant to use. Give Skanlite a shot and you'll see the difference.
It is indeed different. I'm not really feeling it is any better (in fact is seems to be missing a feature or two of xsane that I like), but that is just a personal preference, and I'm happy for you that you found something you like.
Jim