[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 147442] HP Deskjet 740 Printer Driver not installed Does not notify me

[Cristian Tibirna]

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------- Additional Comments From tibirna kde org  2007-07-02 06:27 -------
Thanks for your suggestion. You are right that the kdeprint suite has to check 
better if all required bits and pieces are in place.

Please observe that this is a difficult task. There are literally thousands of 
printers out there. Yours isn't quite new either. Perhaps went unsupported by 
its own creator already.

KDE relies on the distributions to install all the required bits for the 
system's proper functioning. Installing your printer drivers using 
distribution's tools is the right way to do it.

There is probably more work to be done on the side of the distribution, to 
make sure installing printers from kdeprint is done following the particular 
mechanisms of that distribution. The KDE team can't survey all the mechanisms 
distributions employ for installing drivers (not for printers nor for 
anything else). Kdeprint just assumes all bits are in place and installs the 
printer description (PPD) file that allows for printing postscript with the 
help of the underlying printing system (CUPS, lpd etc.) which is assumed 
properly installed by the distribution.

Thanks again.