From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040506 Description of problem: With Xsane installed, it should appear in the Graphics menu. It is missing and is not in any other menu branch. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-menus-1.4.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Applications Menu 2.Select Graphics 3. Actual Results: No entry for xsane, although installed Expected Results: Menu item to start xsane should be present Additional info:
Just because it can be accessed through Gimp is not a good reason to eliminate it from the menus. The Xsane interface is very useful by itself. For example, you can use its Copy mode to send the scanned result directly to the default system printer without involving Gimp.
This is not a bug. The xsane developers removed the .desktop file (used for the menus) from the xsane package. Even though I disagree too with their decision, it's not a bug.
I think that regardless of what the xsane developers did it makes sense for Fedora to have xsane in the applications menu. If one does a default install of Fedora and KDE (kooka) is not installed, it appears to the "average user" that Fedora doesn't have scanning capability.
I don't think this is something we really want to diverge from upstream on.