[haiku-development] Re: [RFC] translator extensions : gui, interactive, blocking flags

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:03:22 +0100 CET

> > > Well, this application might simply bend the translator interface
> > > beyond
> > > what is supposed to be used for. IMHO there should be a different
> > > interface
> > > for scanner/digital camera support.
> >
> > Well this makes all apps able to scan as long as they can read an
> > image.
>
> Yeah, and I'm sure one could write a translator, that would print a
> bitmap
> given to it, which would enable all applications that write a bitmap
> to
> print. Still there's a separate printing API.

It might actually make it easier to have correct printing support to
apps that still don't have it (and many other that have it broken or
unfinished)...
As a fallback.

François.

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