[Bug 832988] New: yast2-printer: hide the "hp-setup" stuff if no HP printer is selected
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832988 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832988#c0 Summary: yast2-printer: hide the "hp-setup" stuff if no HP printer is selected Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 13.1 Milestone 3 Platform: All OS/Version: SUSE Other Status: ASSIGNED Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: jsmeix@suse.com ReportedBy: jsmeix@suse.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com CC: jw@suse.com Found By: Development Blocker: No Juergen Weigert told me about the followig enhancement: Hide the "hp-setup" stuff if no HP printer is selected. Reasoning: In yast2-printer in the "Add New Printer Configuration" dialog there is a [Run hp-setup] button with a heading line that reads: "Alternative setup for HP printers:" This is there in any case regardless what autodetected printer model is currently selected by the user. Juergen Weigert noticed users who click [Run hp-setup] even for non-HP printers regardless of its heading line. In this case nothing goes actually wrong - hp-setup just does not do anything for non-HP printers. But it indicates that (some) users think when the [Run hp-setup] button is there, it makes sense even for non-HP printers regardless of its heading line. Therefore Juergen Weigert suggests to hide the "hp-setup" stuff if no HP printer is selected. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832988 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832988#c1 Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #1 from Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.com> 2013-08-02 09:54:21 CEST --- The enhancement request is invalid. The "hp-setup" stuff is available intentionally regardless of what is autodetected or selected in yast2-printer. Reason: Assume there is a non-HP USB printer connected and there is a WiFi network printer from HP. USB printers are autodetected but WiFi network printers are usually not autodetected. The first autodetected printer is selected by default so that the USB printer would be selected in yast2-printer. Because the WiFi network printer from HP is not autodetected it does not exist from CUPS' and yast2-printer's point of view. There is no way in yast2-printer to get HP's WiFi network printer selected (with reasonable effort - there is a complicated manual way how an expert could achieve it - practically it is useless). But HP's own hp-setup tool can be used to setup even WiFi network printers from HP. See the help text for the "Add New Printer Configuration" dialog: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- An alternative way to set up HP devices is to 'run hp-setup'. HP's own tool 'hp-setup' provides setup support in particular for HP printers and HP all-in-one devices which require a proprietary driver plugin to be downloaded from HP and installed in the right way on a particular end-user's system. Furthermore 'hp-setup' can provide better setup support for HP network printers and HP all-in-one network devices because HP's own tool can implement special handling for special HP network devices. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Therefore "hp-setup" must be available to be run in any case regardless of what is autodetected or selected in yast2-printer. -- 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.
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