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 -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org