On 03/28/12 19:55, Robert Schweikert pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 03/28/2012 07:04 PM, James Knott wrote:
Jos Poortvliet wrote:
They are being reconsidered. Heck, some have been changed already, and others might. Also, Linus is not always right - some of the things he complained about were not oS' fault but GNOME Shell (which can't decouple changing timezones for the clock of a single user vs from changing time systemwide) and lacking printer drivers (if you don't have the printer driver you need a root password to install one).
He was certainly right about the Wifi and printer config. Just today, I was at a customer site and had to set up my computer to use their printer. I couldn't have done it as a mere mortal user with openSUSE 12.1. I could as a regular user in Windows.
What if the appropriate printer driver isn't already on the system? Are you implying that you are OK with installing printer driver packages as user? IMHO a lot of people will have an issue with that. How do you then differentiate the printer driver package form other packages?
I am not saying there may not be an issue. But, just saying users should be able to configure any printer simplifies things just a tat too much.
WiFi is different as the firmware package for the machine will be pulled in at install time, no additional install needed later.
Later, Robert
And in the case of a "printer driver" it usually means nothing more then supplying a PPD file to the config setup. Just how fracking paranoid are we getting? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org