The VueScan Kiss-off

[Fred A. Miller]

On 01/29/2014 11:03 AM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 10:30:04 AM you wrote:
>>> 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
> Yep....  and it worked fine on kubuntu 13.04 but not on 13.10
>
> It has to be a very simple fix, something to do with window refresh since 
> that's what seems to give vuescan a 'kick' to do some action.   But I guess Ed 
> Hamrick just can't be bothered to look into it.
>
> I'll let you know how I do with skanlite....  it looks like a workable 
> solution.
>
I'd guess that it has something to do with the compile of KDE on Kubuntu
and not a VueScan problem. This based on my installs on a number of
Linux flavors.

Fred