----- Original Message ----- > On Sun, 10 May 2015 11:41:13 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > > > We don't ship any system-config-* utilities anymore, and we will not > > add any ever again (system configuration belongs in gnome-control > > -center), so this isn't relevant to Workstation at all. This sounds > > like a complaint for the KDE SIG. > > I agree system configuration belongs in gnome-control-center. I > am not a gnome-shell hater. I use gnome-shell on all of my systems, > but if things are replaced, they should be as good as what is replaced. > system-config-printer is better than gnome-control-center with printers. > > The problem is the system-config-* utilities functions are not always > completely replaced by the gnome-control-center. > > An example is you cannot share printers from gnome-control-center. > Sharing printers is relevant to Workstation. A very popular solution > from The Google is system-config-printer or Cups via localhost:631. > See Gnome Bugzilla 692532 > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692532 opened 2013-01-25, > last comment 2013-02-15, last history entry 2013-04-19 "ui-review". > It is interesting to read Red Hat Bugzilla 1136588 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1136588 in this context > where there is a reference to localhost:631. Really not a related bug. One is a feature request to act as a server, the other a problem when GNOME acts as the client. > I like the idea of Workstation. I have used Red Hat Linux and then > Fedora since Apollo. I subscribed to this mailing list after reading > about the new approach for Fedora. I get the impression from reading > this list popularity as measured in number of users is a goal. > > A dubious goal... <with apologies for bluntness> > > A better goal is to be good at what you do. For me in the past Fedora > has been very good to me. It is better to be good than popular. First off, I should mention that system-config-printer isn't removed from Fedora, and the Printers panel is infinitely better integrated than system-config-printer ever was in GNOME. Thanks for pointing out the bug, that helps us refocus when bugs like this slip through the cracks. However, you're not CC:ed on the bug (where number of CC:ed does help a little bit gauge interest in a feature), which is probably the reason why the problem didn't get attention. There's 2 other reasons why it might not be of such a huge interest from the majority of our users: - the rise of cheap wireless printers - the rise in ISP provided set top boxes which can handle being a print server (YMMV) - the fact that the feature only exports to MacOS X and Linux (through CUPS), and not Windows workstations, or smartphones. Maybe that's good enough, I don't know. In short, CC: yourself on the upstream bug, and I'm sure there will be movement soon. Cheers -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
