https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876764 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876764#c0 Summary: RFC: should system-config-printer-applet be still recommend to be installed? Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 13.2 Milestone 0 Platform: All OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: GNOME AssignedTo: bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jsmeix@suse.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de CC: fcrozat@suse.com Found By: Development Blocker: No This is a request for comments whether or not system-config-printer-applet should be still recommend to be installed? "man system-config-printer-applet" reads: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As well as displaying a printer icon in the notification area, the applet also provides a D-BUS server for the com.redhat.PrintDriverSelection interface, to help configure a new printer when it is plugged in. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This seems to indicate that system-config-printer-applet is somehow needed to configure a new printer when it is plugged in. But a few days ago Frederic Crozat told me: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fedora, upstream is not starting the applet under GNOME environment ... And upstream manpage is obsolete, com.redhat.PrintDriverSelection is not provided by anything in system-config-printer upstream tarball --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now it seems system-config-printer-applet does no longer make sense. At least it seems it does no longer make sense to install system-config-printer-applet by whatever automatism. Currently such an automatism is that udev-configure-printer and system-config-printer recommend system-config-printer-applet so that zypper would "silently" install system-config-printer-applet whenever it is available to be installed. In GNOME:Factory system-config-printer system-config-printer.spec there is (long lines shown wrapped here): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: system-config-printer ... # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM system-config-printer-no-applet-in-gnome.patch rh#677676 fcrozat@suse.com -- Do not start applet in GNOME Patch21: system-config-printer-no-applet-in-gnome.patch ... # The applet is not strictly necessary, but it really makes sense Recommends: %{name}-applet . . . %package -n udev-configure-printer ... Recommends: %{name}-applet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For me it looks contradictory to have a patch that does no longer start the applet but recommend it to be installed. Therefore I wonder whether or not system-config-printer-applet should be still recommend to be installed. -- 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.