[Kde-print-devel] [Bug 141180] [KDE4] Connecting an uninstalled USB printer should start an improved "kaddprinterwizard"

[Parameshwara Bhat]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141180





--- Comment #8 from Parameshwara Bhat <peebhat gmail com>  2011-05-27 21:12:27 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
>  Such hardware and low-level systems
> rightly belong outside KDE with the distro's and people who are experts at that
> stuff doing it all in one place.

That is not correct. Imagine every distro doing it's own print manager! 

printing is a very corec function of a desktop manager, like file-managemnet,
it cannot be left out of Desktop manager suite.

>  Yes, we should have a nicer gui but the
> existing one works.  A different gui is being developed by another coder and
> we'll see if that is better.  This is a volunteer effort, we can't tell people
> what to do, they work on what they enjoy.

I understand it is all labour of love and that's why better product in parts !

I wish there was a central guiding vision, central holding-hand which
channelised and bound volunteer efforts. Though I love KDE and I use it
everyday, I would not recommend KDE to my wife. Some behaviour of KDE and
absence of things like a print-manager can be un-nerving to a non-power users.
In opensuse 11.4, you add a usb printer, kde4 desktop does not react to it.
Yast helps only when you invoke it. It can be baffling to a new user.

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