Re: Orphaned Kooka

[Benoit Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jonathan,

You might be interested in Glimpse, by Kaare Saers! See here:
http://www.commit-digest.org/issues/2007-12-30/

If you were motivated enough to revive Kooka, you might first contact him, 
maybe he would be happy if you offered help!

Cheers,

Benoit (who is looking forward to Glimpse)

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Jonathan Marten wrote:

> I see that Kooka, the kdegraphics scanning application, has been moved out of
> trunk due to the lack of a maintainer.  Having finally acquired a scanner
> that works under Linux, I've started to find this application (from 3.5) very
> useful - obviously scanning support is available within other KDE apps, but
> Kooka is a useful small and lightweight application to do just scanning.
> There have been other comments on the dot (at the time it was removed from
> trunk) to the same effect.
>
> Obviously there is plenty of scope for improvements, and there are ~130 bugs
> currently open for Kooka (of which some really belong to libkscan).  I've
> already fixed some of the problems that were showstoppers for me,
> particularly to allow the use of network scanners that can't be autodetected,
> and have some more ideas for improvements.  I'd be willing to act as
> maintainer for this application, and for the moment keep it in extragear.
> Haven't even considered a port to KDE4 yet, but hopefully that will be
> possible around 4.1 time.
>
> Let me know what I have to do to get registered as maintainer and revive Kooka
> back into extragear, and I'll start...
>
> Regards, Jonathan
>
> -- 
> Jonathan Marten                         http://www.keelhaul.demon.co.uk
> Twickenham, UK
>
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