[Nix-dev] scanning in KDE

Mathijs Kwik mathijs at bluescreen303.nl
Mon Feb 20 20:29:47 CET 2012


Hi all,

Is anyone using a scanner from kde?
I'm not sure which package/application is able to use sane.
I have hardware.sane.enable = true in config.nix.

Looking at dependencies, I'd say libksane is the basic library to access sane.
Then there's a package "ksaneplugin", but I don't understand what the
plugin is for.
The description mentions "kscan", which I'm unable to find, so it
looks as if no package uses this plugin atm?

Next option: kipi plugins.
As far as I can tell kipi plugins get used by gwenview, ksnapshot and digikam.
As I have gwenview installed, this should be ok.
However, gwenview doesn't show any plugins, but I do get an error on
the console:

gwenview(7990)/kdecore (trader) KServiceTypeTrader::defaultOffers:
KServiceTypeTrader: serviceType  "KIPI/Plugin"  not found

So it appears it can't detect the kipi plugins I have installed. Does
anyone successfully use kipi?

Now of course I can just use xsane or some other frontend, but I
prefer a kde app in this case.

Any help?
Thanks,
Mathijs


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