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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:32 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 09:40, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> > Thus spake Gábor Farkas on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:23:59AM CDT |
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> > Printers are an Issue in Linux, and it's not just Gentoo. Eric Raymond |
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> > sent a flame letter to the CUPS people a while back detailing his |
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> > horror story of setting up a CUPS printer. His story was chillingly |
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> > similar to my own experience. It was a nightmare! Maybe the Gentoo |
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> > devs could pick up the ball and make CUPS a little easier to use. |
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> The main problem with cups is the lack of "default" supported printers. |
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> One needs foomatic or gimp-print-cups to add more printers. Foomatic |
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> however does not by default provide all printers it knows about to cups |
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> (Just a matter of generating ppd files and putting them |
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> in /usr/share/cups/model). |
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well...foomatic (at least for me) usually has the printer driver i need |
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(it works with kcontrol). |
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i just don't know how to add a cups printer in gnome ;) |
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gabor |
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