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Thus spake Gábor Farkas on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:23:59AM CDT |
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> On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 13:44 -0700, 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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> > |
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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? 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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> > |
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> > On the other side, what is really hard to configure? Where can we |
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> > improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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> set up a printer in gnome. |
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> i must admit, maybe i just don't know how to do it. |
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> i usually emerge kdebase, and use kcontrol (kde control center) |
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> to add a cups printer. |
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> so, if there's a normal way to add a printer in gnome, tell me. |
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Printers are an Issue in Linux, and it's not just Gentoo. Eric Raymond sent |
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a flame letter to the CUPS people a while back detailing his horror story of |
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setting up a CUPS printer. His story was chillingly similar to my own |
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experience. It was a nightmare! Maybe the Gentoo devs could pick up the |
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ball and make CUPS a little easier to use. |
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