https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276905 ------- Comment #4 from arahne@arahne.si 2007-06-04 13:30 MST ------- I do not decide what you put in distribution, and I do not decide which printers my customers buy. I only advise them. My primary concern is print quality, everything else comes distant second. Open source crusade comes last. About half-baked drivers - we both know that most things in Linux are half baked. Frankly, yast printer configuration was always more half baked than gimp print. Why does printer database need to be rebuilt after every change, and why does it take so much time, is beyond me. Or why the IP address of a networked printer can not be detected (it worked about 4 releases ago). I can't clean printe head, or print nozzle check pattern. I have multi page instructions to teach users around SUSE printing issues http://www.arahne.si/setup5.html Luckily, Linux is not Windows, and even print driver with some issues should not destroy the stability of the whole system. Every version of gimp-print has some bugs, and then some new version will come, fix some of them, and introduce some new ones. The important thing is that more printers will be supported with each release. You are not correct about Epson's ignoring the open source. They do release open source drivers GPL, both for scanners as for printers. http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm The japanese business culture may seem a little crude to us, but you can not say that they are not doing anything. Anyway, include what you will. My point is only that a distribution which does not include drivers for printers still on the market is useless to me. I was only trying to help with pointing you to a new release. -- 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, or are watching someone who is.