There's some real confusion I've noticed in F16 (also present in F15) regarding printer setup. In the System Settings applet, there is a section on printers which includes the ability to add printers. ...Except that applet is completely and total incapable of adding any kind of network printer. It complains about FirewallD not running, and several other other settings missing. If you install FirewallD, things on F16 x64 totally break. I almost destroyed 2 different machines yesterday because of this stupid applet. Then there is the other "Printing" application, aka the old, tried and true "system-config-printer" application. It's much better hidden and not well placed (the "Other" category - really??? shouldn't this be in "System Tools") except that you have to know it's there. This application DOES work to let you set up both local and network printers. It also notices several (of the same) settings not properly set, but then offers to "fix" this for you. One mouse-click and it's done. So why is it that the one which DOESN'T work made to be easier to find, and to potentially screw up the machine, than the one that does work? And why are both still there? Isn't this what we would call a usability disaster? No...? Chris -- ==================================== "If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." --Harvey Mackay -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
