Am Freitag, 17. Juli 2015 10:34 CEST, Per Jessen
[...] I'd still want to know why cups:
1) decided to automagically disable the printer, 2) why noone was informed, and 3) why it could not be reenabled with the webGUI.
I'm not happy with CUPS and Linux printing either: CUPS error messages are either non-exiting or not saying anything. "no authentication" in the logs. Is that an error? A warning? Do I need to do something? Then I had the same problem with enabled/disabled printers after hibernate, for example. That was fixed. The sometimes the print filters work (I can directly print JPEG, for example). At other times, they don't. Or they print the 10x8" 300DPI image on four pages. Or not at all. Error? Nope. Just doesn't print. Oh, now it prints! And now, it doesn't. Settings in options dialogs are hints at best. You wanted B&W? I'll print color and split the image on 8 pages, if you don't mind. Why? Who cares. Printing from Web browsers has been shitty at the best of times. Opera was the only browser which cared at least a bit about being able to print what you see on the screen. Firefox can barely print plain text, Chrome at least tries to match what you see in the print preview. But that's ok, I'm used to it. Print to PDF or capture a screenshot, import into GIMP, print from there. I've been using professional (PostScript) printers for 30 years, now. They work. But KDE and CUPS fucked this up somehow. And if something is broken, there is no way to find out why. KDE isn't showing what it tells CIUPS, CUPS debug output contains a ton of binary data dumps, HTTP headers and other stuff that most people don't care about. But the options with which a job was printed? Which filters were invoked with which options? A debug mode which would save all intermediary steps as the data is converted for the printer? Nope. It either works or you can shoot yourself. While I understand that this is free software and I didn't actually pay anything for getting a solid product, it's still frustrating to be so helpless. Regards, -- Aaron "Optimizer" Digulla a.k.a. Philmann Dark "It's not the universe that's limited, it's our imagination. Follow me and I'll show you something beyond the limits." http://blog.pdark.de/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org