Comment 13 for bug 494759

I believe Roberts concern was for the second page to scan. You wont see a crop rectangle there when you don't do another draft scan, as there is no page displayed before a scan. So the unexperienced user might not notice that he will scan again with this setting and think the program does not work correctly any more.

I agree with you on your second paragraph. And after Lucid will be finally released today I think a lot more comments and requests on features for simplescan will drop in. If all would be implemented, the result would probably just be another version of XSANE. (powerful, but not at all simple)

I think the question is which features are needed to keep the application as simple as possible and yet serving the most possible amount of people.
E.g. I love the simple interface and work-flow of simplescan, but I barely ever need to scan whole pages so a preview/draft mode is important for me. And in the end I will have to go back to XSANE because of that. But this is just me. If only a view people need this feature then I am obviously part of a minority that will have to use an alternative, and that is fine then. If 80% of all people need or want a preview/draft mode, it is probably worth thinking about it. And with Roberts idea above no complexity is added to the default work-flow of scanning a whole page. It is still: open simplescan. click on scan. done.