https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699205 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699205#c6 --- Comment #6 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@novell.com> 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: --------------------------------------------------------------- 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). --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -- 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.