On Sat, 2013-04-27 at 15:26 +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > I recently discovered that if I have a printer attached to a Windows > machine (and shared via samba), it'll unusable on default install, > because samba-client isn't installed by default. > > > control-center's printers panel managed to discover the printer, but > after the driver prompt dialog it gave a cryptic error message and did > not install the printer. > > > After installing samba-client, adding a samba network printer worked > as expected. Therefor I suggest we add samba-client to our default > installation, it's only 1.2MB. > > > Ideally I think it should be added as a Requires in control-center's > spec file, but we could add it to comps instead. If you think adding > this to the default install is a bad idea, control-center should > install it with packagekit whenever users tries to add a Samba > printer. > > > On a related (printing) note, I think it would also make sense to have > hpijs as a default as well, to support more printers. Both sound like good ideas to me. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
