Re: [Gimp-print-devel] What direction should we be headed?

[Mike P. <mi...@UD...>]

I wonder how much of the basic backend to frontend connection work
that was done for SANE would be useful for printing?  I don't
necessarily mean the code, but rather general concepts that are
part of SANE.  Particularly the dll loading, and a decent way to
describe a user interface.  Well, I guess it's decent - I'm just
starting to look at it!

Printing would probably need frontend<->backend like SANE has along
with a defined interface for a transport mechanism.  It seems like
SANE drivers directly talk to the hardware, which can make for
messier drivers that need to know how to talk SCSI, USB and perhaps
parrellel port.

Mike