http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469721 User jsmeix@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469721#c13 --- Comment #13 from Johannes Meixner 2009-11-03 03:18:54 MST --- Why should all users be annoyed with one more popup which asks for stuff which they are usually not interested in? The default ACLs are the same for all kind of "desktop" devices which are read/write permissions for the whole device for the user who is currently logged in locally (see comment #9). See what I wrote above in comment #7 ---------------------------------------------------------------- All I can do is to replace the too specific value 'scanner' with a value (choose what you like) which is o.k. for the superset of - a plain printer - a plain scanner - a printer + scanner all-in-one device - a printer + scanner + fax all-in-one device - a printer + scanner + cardreader all-in-one device - a printer + scanner + fax + cardreader all-in-one device If you provide me such a value e.g. 'desktop-peripheral' which gets an ACL set as currently for a 'scanner', I can replace 'scanner' with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- and in comment #9 ---------------------------------------------------------------- It is exactly what a normal user expects regarding default out-of-the-box device access permissions: When he has a device on his desktop (USB devices are usually located next to the computer) he expects to have access permissions for the whole device by default. A user would not understand if he would be only allowed to print but not allowed to get the printer device status ---------------------------------------------------------------- I never ever got a feature request regarding "fine-tuning of the device access permissions" but I got and get all the time bug reports when this HAL thingy fails again and again to grant the default device access permissions. If whatever setup tool likes to find out if a USB device might be a scanner, it should try to run "sane-find-scanner" and/or "hp-probe -busb -escan" (this is what yast2-scanner does by calling its tool /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/autodetect_scanners) because nothing else works currently (excluding wishful thinking of what might work in theory at some time in the future). -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.