https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699205
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699205#c6
--- Comment #6 from Johannes Meixner 2011-06-10 13:44:05 UTC ---
I watch the mailing list
opensuse-factory@opensuse.org
opensuse@opensuse.org
opensuse-de@opensuse.org
for printing related issues.
But I don't pick up issues regarding yast2-printer there
for recent openSUSE versions like 11.3 and 11.4.
I didn't understand your comment as a rant.
I would be really interested where the users are
who have issues with yast2-printer and what
their issues actually are.
Regarding "having a number of different printer
driver (or ppd) is suboptimal":
What is wrong with having several drivers available
when several drivers work for a model?
What is wrong with freedom of choice?
Each driver has its pros and cons, read the help text in YaST:
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It is possible to have several different print queues
for the same printer device.
Usually several print queues are needed when several different
printer drivers should be used for the same printer device.
For example a second queue with a monochrome-only driver
to enforce black-only printout on a color device
or a PostScript queue and a queue with a PCL driver
for a PostScript+PCL printer because printing via the PCL driver
is usually faster (but with less quality).
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Again:
There is neither such a thing as "THE driver for a printer"
nor is there a "BEST driver for a printer".
To help the user yast2-printer sorts the available choices
and usually it preselects one so that usually
the user has nothing to do than to accept it.
If there was only one single driver for each printer model,
there would be no need to have yast2-printer at all
because when there is no choice, a user dialog to choose
something does not make any sense.
Guess why there is no YaST module for SCSI cards.
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