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Re: [Cooker] New printing system
by Tiago Salem Herrmann
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Marcelo Ricardo Leitner escreveu:
> Tiago Salem Herrmann escreveu:
>> Yes, Vanessa warned me about it. It can be useful, but IMO, could be
>> annoying in some cases as well. For example, if an user has a printer
>> that can't be
>> installed on linux (multifunctional?) and uses another operating
>> system in the same computer that supports this printer, every time
>> the user boots on mandriva it will warn the user about a printer that
>> can't be installed. But if the user really wants to install this
>> printer, it is possible to access system-config-printer through menu,
>> or mcc, when I finish the integration.
>
> Hmm.. I don't know if that would be the case, as (at least
> printerdrake had it) should be possible to to mark something like 'do
> not try to setup this printer anymore'Hmm, I'll take a look at the code and check what I can do.
I'm trying not to change the code too much, or it will be necessary to
fork system-config-printer, and that is not the idea.
>
> Anyway, despite of the feature, IMHO it's a very rare scenario a user
> that uses linux and has an unsupported printer. Now remember the
> common procedure inherited from Windows: plug in and restart the
> system. That's user friendly as it is on their blood already heh.
yes, I'm trying not to use windows as a reference of usability :)
>
> Btw, new test: damn, just forgot.
> (4mins after) Oh, remembered: I couldn't check how
> system-config-printer is integrated with urpmi, but I assume it is via
> subprocessing/fork. That would be less problematic, but it would be
> nice to test installing required packages from the 3 CDs set, which
> I'm almost sure it will request a media change. Just to be sure that
> this working properly :)
Yes, it calls gurpmi, and I believe it will mange these package stuffs.
but I'll test it for sure.
> Tiago Salem Herrmann escreveu:
>> Yes, Vanessa warned me about it. It can be useful, but IMO, could be
>> annoying in some cases as well. For example, if an user has a printer
>> that can't be
>> installed on linux (multifunctional?) and uses another operating
>> system in the same computer that supports this printer, every time
>> the user boots on mandriva it will warn the user about a printer that
>> can't be installed. But if the user really wants to install this
>> printer, it is possible to access system-config-printer through menu,
>> or mcc, when I finish the integration.
>
> Hmm.. I don't know if that would be the case, as (at least
> printerdrake had it) should be possible to to mark something like 'do
> not try to setup this printer anymore'
I'm trying not to change the code too much, or it will be necessary to
fork system-config-printer, and that is not the idea.
>
> Anyway, despite of the feature, IMHO it's a very rare scenario a user
> that uses linux and has an unsupported printer. Now remember the
> common procedure inherited from Windows: plug in and restart the
> system. That's user friendly as it is on their blood already heh.
yes, I'm trying not to use windows as a reference of usability :)
>
> Btw, new test: damn, just forgot.
> (4mins after) Oh, remembered: I couldn't check how
> system-config-printer is integrated with urpmi, but I assume it is via
> subprocessing/fork. That would be less problematic, but it would be
> nice to test installing required packages from the 3 CDs set, which
> I'm almost sure it will request a media change. Just to be sure that
> this working properly :)
Yes, it calls gurpmi, and I believe it will mange these package stuffs.
but I'll test it for sure.
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