Hello, too! Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Feb 24 21:55 Pit Suetterlin wrote:
Wow. No, WOW! I knew it's a PostScript printer and expected little work. But that was an absolute zero-conf thing. Just plug it in and print. As I said - I'm *really* impressed....
Nothing else but pure luck ;-)
Well, yes and no. Of course one reason is that I picked a printer specified as 'works perfectly' in the openprinting database. And knowing that in the past, printer setup of this kind of well-behaved printers was just starting yast-printer and confirm the autodetected configuration options it is easy to imagine that the whole thing can be completely automated without any user interaction. Just the fact that this actually had been done was unexpected. I'm long enough with Linux (reg. Linux user #3595) and Suse to know that this cannot be generalized, and that it even might cause more problems with unsupported printers - though I really hope the developers made this 'AI' smart enough to know when it should rather NOT do anything.... And yes, it does print correctly. Very nice printer, I can recommend it to anyone not needing color.
Nevertheless from a strict theoretical point of view, when an automated queue setup is actually successful, it is nothing else but pure luck.
Hey, you're a pessimist!? Has the advantage that being proven wrong is a good thing, I know. But the ease of nowadays Linux installs seems to indicate that 'pure luck' gets more and more common. And from your mail address and footer I conclude you're one of those responsible for it ;^> Cheers, Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org