Q: Can I use xsane and my scanner with GIMP 2?
A: Yes, it is, with 0.93 or with a patch, for 0.92: ![[WWW]](/wiki/modern/img/moin-www.png){kind=small}
http://people.debian.org/~jblache/xsane-0.92_gimp2.0.patch Have a look at http://www.xsane.org for more information.
Apply to a clean source tree with patch -p1, run configure, build. It defaults to GTK2+GIMP2.0. (you don't need to run autoconf)
WARNING: the autoconf check that comes with GIMP 2.0 expects version strings of the form x.y.z, and GIMP 2.0 pre-versions have a version string of the form 2.0preX, so the check barfs.
You'll have to edit either gimptool or the .pc file for GIMP 2.0 so that they return 2.0.0 as the version string.
If you do not understand what this all means, keep using GIMP 1. The upgrade to GIMP 2 is not for the faint of heart.
See also GimpPrint