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You are right about the git version but there are two problems with it there are no desktop icons and if started from a terminal this error message appears [xsane] ERROR: xsane-startimage not found. Looks like xsane is not installed correct apart from these two problems it does work correctly

It is already ported to gtk3 - just install xsane-git package instead if xsane.

will xsane be rewritten to remove gtk2 which is being removed?

@magnade you have to manually add the patch that @jprjr has posted recently.

Edit: I contacted @tonich to ask that he update the PKGBUILD

Edit 2: @tonich kindly made me a co-maintainer and I've added @jprjr's excellent patch. This PKGBUILD should again build without error.

looks like building is broken again

@jprjr thanks for the patch -- I logged on just to post one myself and saw I'd been beat to it!

Here's a patch

diff --git a/src/xsane-gamma.c b/src/xsane-gamma.c
index 7951354..93b8943 100644
--- a/src/xsane-gamma.c
+++ b/src/xsane-gamma.c
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ void xsane_update_sliders()

 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

-static gint xsane_batch_scan_gamma_event()
+static gint xsane_batch_scan_gamma_event(void* userdata)
 {
   DBG(DBG_proc, "xsane_batch_scan_gamma_event\n");

@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static gint xsane_batch_scan_gamma_event()

 /* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

-static gint xsane_slider_hold_event()
+static gint xsane_slider_hold_event(void* userdata)
 {
   DBG(DBG_proc, "xsane_slider_hold_event\n");

diff --git a/src/xsane-save.h b/src/xsane-save.h
index 64db676..e6fdab6 100644
--- a/src/xsane-save.h
+++ b/src/xsane-save.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ struct pdf_xref


 extern int xsane_create_secure_file(const char *filename);
-extern void xsane_cancel_save();
+extern void xsane_cancel_save(int*);
 extern void xsane_convert_text_to_filename(char **filename);
 extern int xsane_get_filesize(char *filename);
 extern void xsane_ensure_counter_in_filename(char **filename, int counter_len);

You are right - when I downgrade gimp to 2.10.38-5 the menu item for creating a new image from the scanner source appears again.

@simona, I would not wait for an update from the packager. He/she last AUR login is from 6 months ago. He/she is not even reading our posts. I recommend you move from xsane to simple-scan, which is in the exra Arch repo.

@moormaster, I suspect GIMP 3.0 is not compatible with this version of Xsane.