Sane Frontend

Geezer · Nov 6, 2021

What is a good frontend for sane?

I have already tried graphics/xsane. It is reasonable, but not too beautiful. I think it has been designed for a different default font.

There is graphics/kooka, which is a kde thingy. I am not sure I want to build a million unnecessary dependencies.

Is there another sane frontend?

Alain De Vos · Nov 6, 2021

There is gscan2pdf & skanlite .

Geezer · Nov 6, 2021

Thank you Alain De Vos .

I did try graphics/skanlite. It had loads of dependencies, including kf5-kwallet and qt5-wayland, whatever they have got to do with scanning. In the end, I don't think it was any better than xsane.

T-Daemon · Nov 6, 2021

Geezer said:
... tried graphics/xsane ... not too beautiful.

Install a more pleasant gtk2/3 theme. This is adwaita-creamy:

Geezer · Nov 6, 2021

T-Daemon said:
Install a more pleasant gtk2/3 theme. This is adwaita-creamy:

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Yes, your screenshot looks really good.

One of the issues is the resolution of the screen. I am running at 3840 X 2160, so I am using quite a large font size. This does not seem to work well with xsane. I could use much smaller fonts, then I would squint to read everything. I am sure xsane looks good in a smaller resolution.