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First impression of scanner software, I'm underwhelmed. Some of the software design aspects I had issues with ten years ago with my cheap Mustek scanner are still present with this Epson scanner.
Seriously, there's a simple window with just a progress bar to tell me how far along the scan process is - why the hell does this window have to be always on top? (come to think of it, why isn't there a system wide setting in MS Windows not to honour any app's request to be "always on top"?? Same as browsers should have a setting to ignore blink tags.)
And those quick scan buttons on the scanner ... There's one labelled with a printer icon. You'd think, simple enough, scan whatever's in the scanner, send to printer.
When I press that button, I *do not* want a window to pop up for me to basically confirm various settings. I want it to scan, then print.
Same goes for the e-Mail button. Scan, attach as jpg to new e-Mail. Instead of that all I'm getting here is an error message, "please install the e-Mail application". I guess supporting a niche product such as Thunderbird takes too much effort.
I'll fiddle with the scanner some more tommorrow, maybe I'll find some options to change the default behaviour. For now, bed.
This is way too long for a friendface status ...
*posts to lj*
Seriously, there's a simple window with just a progress bar to tell me how far along the scan process is - why the hell does this window have to be always on top? (come to think of it, why isn't there a system wide setting in MS Windows not to honour any app's request to be "always on top"?? Same as browsers should have a setting to ignore blink tags.)
And those quick scan buttons on the scanner ... There's one labelled with a printer icon. You'd think, simple enough, scan whatever's in the scanner, send to printer.
When I press that button, I *do not* want a window to pop up for me to basically confirm various settings. I want it to scan, then print.
Same goes for the e-Mail button. Scan, attach as jpg to new e-Mail. Instead of that all I'm getting here is an error message, "please install the e-Mail application". I guess supporting a niche product such as Thunderbird takes too much effort.
I'll fiddle with the scanner some more tommorrow, maybe I'll find some options to change the default behaviour. For now, bed.
This is way too long for a friendface status ...
*posts to lj*
