diff -up xsane-0.996/src/xsane-back-gtk.c.sane-backends-1.0.20 xsane-0.996/src/xsane-back-gtk.c
--- xsane-0.996/src/xsane-back-gtk.c.sane-backends-1.0.20	2007-08-13 09:49:34.000000000 +0200
+++ xsane-0.996/src/xsane-back-gtk.c	2009-07-20 15:22:34.268802179 +0200
@@ -2612,10 +2612,7 @@ void xsane_back_gtk_set_sensitivity(int 
       continue;
     }
 
-    if (!(opt->cap & SANE_CAP_ALWAYS_SETTABLE))
-    {
-      gtk_widget_set_sensitive(xsane.element[i].widget, sensitive);
-    }
+    gtk_widget_set_sensitive(xsane.element[i].widget, sensitive);
   }
 
   if (xsane.xsanemode_widget)