@@ -19178,6 +19178,46 @@ tool. See @uref{https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/, the colord web
site} for more information.
@end deffn
+@cindex scanner access
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} sane-service-type
+This service provides access to scanners @i{via}
+@uref{http://www.sane-project.org, SANE} by installing the necessary udev
+rules. This service is already included in @code{%desktop-services} with
+@code{sane-backends-minimal} configured.
+@end defvr
+
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} sane-backends-minimal
+The default package which the @code{sane-service-type} will install, this will
+support many recent scanners out-of-the-box.
+@end defvr
+
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} sane-backends
+A package which includes support for all scanners that @code{sane-backends-minimal}
+supports, plus older Hewlett-Packard scanners supported by @code{hplip}. In order
+to use this on a system which uses @code{%desktop-services}, you can use
+@code{modify-services} to change the @code{sane-service-type} configuration:
+
+@lisp
+(use-modules (gnu))
+(use-service-modules
+ ; @dots{}
+ desktop)
+(use-package-modules
+ ; @dots{}
+ scanner)
+
+(operating-system
+ ;; @dots{}
+ (services
+ (append
+ ;; @dots{}
+ (modify-services %desktop-services
+ (sane-service-type _ => sane-backends))))
+ ;; @dots{}
+ )
+@end lisp
+@end defvr
+
@deffn {Scheme Procedure} geoclue-application name [#:allowed? #t] [#:system? #f] [#:users '()]
Return a configuration allowing an application to access GeoClue
location data. @var{name} is the Desktop ID of the application, without
@@ -19189,13 +19229,6 @@ this application is allowed location info access. An empty users list
means that all users are allowed.
@end deffn
-@cindex scanner access
-@deffn {Scheme Procedure} sane-service-type
-This service provides access to scanners @i{via}
-@uref{http://www.sane-project.org, SANE} by installing the necessary udev
-rules.
-@end deffn
-
@defvr {Scheme Variable} %standard-geoclue-applications
The standard list of well-known GeoClue application configurations,
granting authority to the GNOME date-and-time utility to ask for the
SANE documentation in `info guix` is lacking, this patch gives decent documentation about it. PLEASE merge soon, it's not like this is code. From e0728dbab926e4670ec067865053331a02d5d171 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: raid5atemyhomework <raid5atemyhomework@protonmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 21:01:23 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Expand sane-service-type documentation. * doc/guix.texi (sane-service-type): Move from between documentation about geoclue, expand slightly. (sane-backends-minimal): New description. (sane-backends): New description, new example. --- doc/guix.texi | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.30.0