On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 14:13 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Mar 9 22:17 Magnus Boman wrote (shortened):
On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 11:51 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
How often does a home user set up a printer?
When it comes to a USB printer, how about every time it's disconnected/connected?? I've got a HP Photosmart printer at home. If I configure it (with root), then I can print. But if I turn it off and then back on, cups will show it as online, but when I print to it, nothing will happen.
A bug somewhere in your hardware, in USB or in HPLIP or whatever. A bug must be fixed where it is and not by a workaround via re-setup every time the hardware is disconnected/connected. For the resulting pronblems with such a re-setup, see the previous mails in this thread.
Fair enough. I'll make an effort to report this bug.
A normal user can change and store his own printer specific settings in his ~/.lpoptions (CUPS 1.1) or ~/.cups/lpoptions (CUPS 1.2) file usually via the various printing dialog tools (kprinter, gtklp, xpp, lpoptions) but not via the various printer setup tools (which do the admin-related stuff).
Will a normal user know about these files?
I wrote "via the various printing dialog tools". If a normal user does not know how to use the printing dialog tools, there is something to do on the desktop/application layer.
You wrote *usually* via the various printing tools. But at least we're going somewhere here since you admit that if a user does not know how to do something, we need to make a change somewhere. And that's where this discussion started.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
I noticed that you didn't comment on the OpenOffice, Acrobat Reader issues that I also had in this mail. I know that this is not a cups issue, but it's still worth remembering in this discussion. Kinder regards, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org