Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@xxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Mar 11 01:59 Stanislav Visnovsky wrote (shortened):
> Dna Monday 10 March 2008 17:17:00 Felix-Nicolai Müller ste napísal:
> > In order for a printer to work, I believe it has to be set up first.

Yes, for a locally connected printer.

But not necessarily for a printer in the network when it is already
configured on a remote CUPS server which broadcasts its queue
so that client systems (with a local running cupsd) can use
the printer via the CUPS server without any configuration, see
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell
"Intrinsic design of CUPS for printing in the network"


> ... Fedora and Ubuntu are setting the standard, where you 
> can use your printers without minimal hassle

I.e. with much hassle!
;-)


> Scanners are not part of the 2nd stage ATM.

Neither printers nor scanners should be part of any stage
of the system installation.
I mean that neither the printer setup software nor the scanner
setup software should be part of the system installation software.

Reasoning:

Only hardware which is mandatory to run the system at all
(e.g. mainboard, harddisk, keyboard, graphics card)
should be set up during system installation.

All other hardware setup should be independent of the system
installation so that it works independent of the system installation
(in particular also later in the installed system).

In particular USB hardware setup can be done via udev events
which trigger an appropriate setup program call.

For USB printers we have already cups-autoconfig,
see my previous posting.

For USB scanners we will have sane-backends-autoconfig, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=347943


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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