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On Tuesday 05 October 2004 8:44 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> One of my goals as manager of the desktop project is to get things to |
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> "just work." Once they're emerged, just run them and things are good to |
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> go. |
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That's the role I have taken for Utopios. |
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> Since I can't try everything, I need some feedback from you guys. What |
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> already does a great job at this? |
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Scanners work out of the box when they work at all (if it's supported and the |
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stuff compiles). |
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> What stands out in your minds as being |
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> forgettable because of the lack of set-up effort? |
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Printers *used* to be almost the same as scanners (once installed). |
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Unfortunately, somewhat recently (over the past year), the default is to |
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*not* install drivers for most printers. I believe people need to manually |
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emerge gimp-print or something to get them. |
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> On the other side, what is really hard to configure? |
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Default KDE settings are annoying quite often, but that really is upstream's |
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fault. Utopios will be changing upstream defaults, but IIRC, Gentoo's policy |
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is not to. |
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> Where can we |
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> improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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> Thanks for your time. |
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> Donnie |
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Random other stuff I forget, I'm sure, but that's it for now. |
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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Utopios |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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