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[Robert Ancell <robert.ancell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom and others, I'd be interested in your feedback on the mode selector
as it's part of the UI that never feels quite like it fits.

The main reason I had it beside the scan button is it only affects the
behaviour of the scan button.  By placing it too far away it is perhaps
confusing as to what it does (changing it doesn't give any visual
feedback).

Some ideas:
- Putting it in the preferences dialog.  Not good as you may be scanning different documents at the same time.  Hard to discover.
- Putting it as radio buttons inside the scan dropdown menu.  Hard to discover.
- Making two scan buttons "Scan text", "Scan photo"
- Always scanning in colour and providing a post-processing option, i.e. "optimise for text".

The main case for the text mode is otherwise files are too large for
sending/archiving.

(Note any changes would be post 1.0, I think the mode selector solution
is good enough).

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Toolbar confusing for new users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/543384
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Status in Simple Scan: Triaged
Status in “simple-scan” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
The current toolbar, whilst simple, could better guide new users through the process of scanning a document. In particular adding a save button (users generally don't look in menus) and a label for the crop button would make it just that little bit more obvious (this is particularly important as in my experience, workstations used for scanning are shared so this might well be many's first experience of Ubuntu). This change is inline with the gnome hig section on toolbars and is consistent with the menu.

I have made all necessary changes in the attached branch and added several screenshots. Note that I also had to change the order slightly for the icons to fit in.