On Tuesday 28 July 2009 15:30:10 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > But doesn't that mean that hplip is useless? If you can't set up your > > printer, it is. I'm not being aggressive, just practical. Happy or not, > > if you have an HP device that needs hplip, you have to be able to use > > hp-setup. It's not as though there is a -tui version. > > You can use system-config-printer or system-config-printer-kde to set up > your printer just fine, there's no need to use the vendor-specific hp-setup > tool. > I did once use s-c-p. It worked, after a fashion, but you can't use it to set up every feature of the device. > Another reason hplip-gui is not installed by default is that the RH folks > objected to a vendor-specific tool (hp-toolbox) being in the default menus. > That said, hp-toolbox is the only UI which allows you to check the > cartridge state or align or clean the cartridges at the moment. > And a few other things too, including fax setup. It doesn't have to be in the default menu anyway. It just has to be available, just as things like nv are. I still think that the two (hplip and hplip-gui) should be linked if not packaged together. It makes no sense any other way. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090728/b1112fb7/attachment.bin
