On December 21, 2009 05:28:03 am wrote:
On Sunday, 2009-12-20 at 23:41 -0800, Robert Smits wrote:
Is there a straigtforward guide to setting up CUPS in an opensuse 11.0 environment that I can follow?
Simply use YaST, let it do the job for you.
-- Cheers, Helpful Poster
Thanks for the reply, Helpful Poster. I appreciate that you took the time to make a suggestion. This brings me, however, to make a point about replies to requests for help. (And to be clear, this is not aimed at the helpful poster, because I'm guilty of doing it as well.) Our habit of making what seem to be simple answers to simple questions are not perceived as simple answers. To many readers, they either seem completely dismissive - as in go read the f$%^&ing manual, or are so lacking in practical how do I do it terms that the poster simply mutters under their breath about damned Linux geeks and goes back to the dark side. And yes, I appreciate it that some posters don't read the manual, but that isn't the point. At the very least, we need to describe the actions in much clearer terms than the example above. Telling me to go to YAST/Hardware/Printer and that I can set up shared printing there is ever so much more helpful. Let's be nice to each other. -- Bob Smits bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org