[fprint] New project "fingerprintGUI"

[Daniel Drake]

Wolfgang Ullrich wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I have started a project "fingerprintGUI" that uses "libfprint" and is
> aimed to make usage of fingerprints easier on Linux systems. It is in a
> very early stage (has only started 2 weeks before). I have made a (very
> poor) homepage for it on http://www.darkblue.homeip.net/fingerprint .
> There is a couple of screenshots shown and a snapshot of the sources
> available for download as a tarball.

Thanks! I added a link to the front page.
As others have commented, in future we'll want to move this to being a 
client of fprintd. A user-friendly enrollment GUI will certainly be needed.

BTW, you commented about the blocking issue. Latest fprint_demo uses 
libfprint's new asynchronous interface which does not have the blocking 
problems. fprint_demo is still single threaded and allows cancelling of 
active scans.

> 1. The UPEC fingerprint reader in my IBM R52 notebook has no driver
> function for "identifying" fingerprints.
> 
> Has anyone informations whether this will be available in the near
> future? The only hint I could find so far was in the wiki
> http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Upekts 
> where it reads "this can become a future project". If not, I need to buy
> another fingerprint device capable of indentifying with the Linux
> driver. Can anyone recommend a device?

The UPEK linux driver supposedly supports identification so it just 
needs someone to sit down and analyse the bus traffic a bit more. 
Shouldn't be too hard.

There is no need to reverse engineer the windows driver (which is more 
complex and drives the device in a different way) to gain this 
functionality.

Daniel