[Bug 441416] New: new YaST printer module totally broken
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441416 Summary: new YaST printer module totally broken Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta4 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: danielstefanmader@web.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- When a new YaST printer module was announced for 11.1, I was extraordinary happy about that: the new KDE4 has close to zero support for printing in the current status and thus the only way to set up printers for KDE users would be a corresponding YaST module. Yet, I find this new dialog very confusing and I am unable to configure something as simple as an IPP or TCP network printer. This has been horrible enough with the old YaST module, to the point that it was unusable for non-sophisticated users — and it seems to me it is now even more confusing. Seriously, the wizard is a joke! Please provide a convenient scan function or the like, and don't let the user have to worry about the syntax of the printer URL, plus, a reasonalbe preselection of drivers for the found printer model (yes, they really do answer with a description of what printer type they are, those thingies in year 2008). Sorry for the rant, but I think that new tool does not justify any minute put into it. We would be better of with the old one, imho. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Andreas Jaeger
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Mészáros Gyula
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Nkoli Ukpabi
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--- Comment #4 from Daniel Mader
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Johannes Meixner
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--- Comment #6 from Daniel Mader
All connections of autodetected printers are available in YaST without using complicated stuff like the "Connection Wizard".
This is exactly my point: a wizard which is "complicated" is just wrong. I find it unusable for the average user. And yes, this is a complaint. It is such a basic complaint, that I didn't even bother to enumerate the individual bugs there are in that new module. Compared to the other modules available in YaST, the printer module has always been a poor cousin, and I don't see any improvement here with in the new module. Also: for the presumably many cases where network printers do NOT blast their information out into the network there must be a way to be able to configure them manually without studying the CUPS internals. Thanks for closing and appreciating feedback. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #7 from Mészáros Gyula
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