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I did not want to imply that Gentoo is worse than the |
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rest in terms of printing. |
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I followed the printing how-to (which BTW is great) |
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and everything worked just fine. |
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It just takes some work setting everything up ... and |
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the question was "What just works?" which I took to |
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mean "with no additional setup" |
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--- Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@×××××××.org> |
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> To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:20:39 +0000 |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] What "just works" and |
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> what doesn't? |
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> On Wednesday 06 October 2004 3:43 pm, marcos |
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> ferreyra wrote: |
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> > Examples of things that DON'T WORK out-of-the-box |
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> are |
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> > * wireless (in my experience, very hard to set up) |
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> (Never tried w/ Gentoo.) |
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> |
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> > * software suspend |
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> There is no stable software suspend for Linux at |
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> all. Hardly something that |
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> Gentoo can fix without kernel hackers joining one of |
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> the projects. |
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> > * printers |
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> Can be fixed by emerging the drivers w/ cups |
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> automatically. Perhaps a |
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> USE=extra-drivers adding RDEPENDs |
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> > |
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> > --- Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 03:23, Gábor Farkas wrote: |
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> > > > set up a printer in gnome. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > i must admit, maybe i just don't know how to |
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> do |
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> > > |
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> > > it. |
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> > > |
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> > > > i usually emerge kdebase, and use kcontrol |
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> (kde |
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> > > |
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> > > control center) |
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> > > |
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> > > > to add a cups printer. |
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> > > > |
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> > > > so, if there's a normal way to add a printer |
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> in |
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> > > |
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> > > gnome, tell me. |
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> > > |
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> > > emerge gnome-cups-manager |
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> > > |
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> > > I really wish this ebuild would add a .desktop |
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> entry |
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> > > to the Desktop |
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> > > Preferences section of my Gnome menu by default. |
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> In |
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> > > fact, you might |
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> > > even have it on your system and just not know |
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> it. |
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> > > |
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> > > -- |
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> > > Chris Gianelloni |
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> > > Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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> > > Games - Developer |
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> > > Gentoo Linux |
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> > > |
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> > > |
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> > > -- |
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> > > gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-desktop@g.o mailing list |
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> -- |
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> Luke-Jr |
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> Developer, Utopios |
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> http://utopios.org/ |
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