#146 include Skanpage by default
Closed: Fixed 6 months ago by timaeos. Opened 3 years ago by limao-doce.

Currently, the KDE spin doesn't have any document scanning software installed by default.


You can install it from the repo fairly easily. As we can not install every single application, is there any specific reason we should have it by default?

Skanlite is nice and work just fine. But it's a frontend to the Sane backend. So you have to provide a proper support to Sane, and this requires additional space. However I did it for my remix [1], as a "workstation" edition (alternative to the lighter "desktop" edition).

[1] https://github.com/mbugni/fedora-remix

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- Issue tagged with: need-info

2 years ago

You can install it from the repo fairly easily. As we can not install every single application, is there any specific reason we should have it by default?

Workstation spin has gnome-scan

A scanner app is pretty basic functionality so IMO it makes sense.

I'd prefer Skanpage, as it supports multi-page scans.

Ping.

I agree with @ngraham - Skanpage allows saving as PDF which is what I imagine most users will need if, like me, they only use their scanner to scan signed documents.

Metadata Update from @justinz:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

2 years ago

I tried both scanlite and skanpage. My preference is scanpage.

A scanner app is pretty basic functionality so IMO it makes sense.

I'd prefer Skanpage, as it supports multi-page scans.

I use the Gnome "Document scanner" because it supports directly clipping the image, which neither Skanlite nor Skanpage appear to do in any obvious way. I do this all the time.

I'd go for skanpage.

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- Issue assigned to siosm

a year ago

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- Issue untagged with: meeting

a year ago

Metadata Update from @siosm:
- Issue untagged with: need-info
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora Linux 40
- Issue tagged with: kinoite

a year ago

I'd go for skanpage.

Something isn't working so I can't try it:

$ sudo dnf install skanpage
...
Installing : skanpage-23.08.3-1.fc39.x86_64 1/1
...
$ skanpage
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qml/MainWindow.qml:331:26: Type ContentView unavailable
qrc:/qml/ContentView.qml:67:13: Type DocumentPage unavailable
qrc:/qml/DocumentPage.qml:14:1: module "org.kde.kquickimageeditor" is not installed

I'd go for skanpage.

Something isn't working so I can't try it:

$ sudo dnf install skanpage
...
Installing : skanpage-23.08.3-1.fc39.x86_64 1/1
...
$ skanpage
QQmlApplicationEngine failed to load component
qrc:/qml/MainWindow.qml:331:26: Type ContentView unavailable
qrc:/qml/ContentView.qml:67:13: Type DocumentPage unavailable
qrc:/qml/DocumentPage.qml:14:1: module "org.kde.kquickimageeditor" is not installed

Fixed: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-01e259b396

I'd go for skanpage.

Something isn't working so I can't try it:

[...]
Fixed: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-01e259b396

OK, tried it and it seems to work.

Hum, we still need to get the Flatpak included in the installer for Kinoite

Metadata Update from @timaeos:
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora Linux 41 (was: Fedora Linux 40)

6 months ago

One caveat is that skanpage now has a qtwebengine dependency, so it is not available for ppc64le.

I submitted a PR https://pagure.io/pungi-fedora/pull-request/1301# without the ppc64le. I haven't been able to test scanning functionality of the flatpak but it opened at least

Alright this was merged in. We should be good to close this now

Metadata Update from @timaeos:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

6 months ago

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