On Thursday 30 July 2009 23:04:47 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > If you try to run hp-setup as user it tells you that it *must* be run as > > root. This is a one-time run. > > Fun, run e.g. hp-toolbox as root and it will tell you you must not run it > as root (well, first it tells you you should not, then it errors because of > another root check somewhere else). hp-setup on the other hand won't even > run as a regular user (I think years will pass until HP gets wind about > things like PolicyKit). Those decisions are sensible. You want setup to be system-wide. Toolbox is user-level. Fair enough. > But at least HP is releasing their source code > under a Free Software license unlike most other manufacturers? Still, the > hp-setup tool is entirely useless as all its functionality is already > provided by our own tools (system-config-printer resp. > system-config-printer-kde). hp- toolbox (and hp-systray which it starts > too), while providing some unique and very much necessary functionality > (ink cartridge maintenance ? IIRC, some time ago there was some movement to > provide a unified interface for that in CUPS to avoid all the > manufacturer-specific tools (there are similar tools for printers from some > other manufacturers, though usually community- written unlike hp-toolbox), > I hope that common interface will get completed and implemented in the UIs > at some point) also duplicates some functionality of other tools already > provided in Fedora and other distributions. > Sorry Kevin, but your are being blinkered. S-c-p has its place, but it is not as good as hplip for these devices. You use what you like and leave us to use what we like. 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/20090731/c1270632/attachment.bin
