The VueScan Kiss-off

[Fred A. Miller]

On 01/27/2014 08:58 PM, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 01/27/2014 07:46 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>> I've been using VueScan as a scanning application for probably 5 years.  It
>>
>> is/was a good application and it supports a lot of scanners.
>>
>> But with Kubuntu 13.4 (and who knows what other distros of linux) it has a
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>> "window" problem.  If you click on any action, such as PREVIEW or SCAN or even
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>> FILE--->Exit, the program fails to do ANYTHING.   It is only when you switch
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>> to a different desktop,  or window, or minimize the Vuescan window, that any
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>> action will take place.
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>> The program WILL work, but only if you fiddle and diddle with switching or
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>> minimizing windows to give it a "kick".
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>> I've been working with Ed Hammrick  (Ed Hamrick <vuescan at gmail.com>) to try to
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>> solve these issues but in essence, he could care less.
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>> His recent statements:
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>> "Yes, I recommend you use a different scanning solution."
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>> "Yes, I'm probably going to stop supporting Linux in the next few weeks."
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>>
>> "I get less than 1% of my revenues from Linux, and increasingly
>> the poor quality control in various distributions and increasingly
>> fragmented distributions makes it difficult to make a single
>> executable work on many Linux distributions."
>>
>> So he's giving up on linux and telling us all to "take it somewhere else" to
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>> put it bluntly.
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>> This has to be a simple problem since the program only has a window problem,
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>> but he's not interested in any solution.
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>> So my question to the group is:  "what other scanning solution are you using
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>> under linux?"
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>> Once again, linux users are second class citizens.
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>>
>>
>
> I've been using Skanlite. It's pretty basic but fill my needs just
> fine. I don't do a lot of scanning. 

I use VueScan most of the time, because it gives me VERY GOOD when
scanning B&W or color negatives, restoring images from tin plates, etc.
It DOES work perfectly on openSuSE 12.3 and 13.1.....just for an FYI.

Fred