(Sorry, I don't have FC6, so I can't check the new system-config-printer.)
Say you are adding a new printer using the wizard. You get to the screen "Printer model" when you realize you forgot to add the PPD. The wizard doesn't let you add a PPD at this point, and since the wizard is modal, you can't add a PPD from the main window. So, you have to abort the wizard to add a PPD.
It would be easier and intuitive to have an "Add a PPD" button on the Wizard's "Printer model" page.
Andrew
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Andrew Ziem escribió:
(Sorry, I don't have FC6, so I can't check the new system-config-printer.)
Say you are adding a new printer using the wizard. You get to the screen "Printer model" when you realize you forgot to add the PPD. The wizard doesn't let you add a PPD at this point, and since the wizard is modal, you can't add a PPD from the main window. So, you have to abort the wizard to add a PPD.
It would be easier and intuitive to have an "Add a PPD" button on the Wizard's "Printer model" page.
Andrew
I agree with you in this regard...
Other printer usability "issues".
I'm not so sure if anyone else has noticed this, but for home users it is a pain to not be able to adjust printer quality settings as a normal user and from the standard print dialogs (yes, much to my dislike, like it is in Windows®), or at least have access to a central printer "properties" window from where they could set their preferences for printing quality (dpi, quality settings, paper size, etc), say, be able to set all quality and other parameters to the printer, as a normal user, from Programs -> System Tools (Aplicaciones - -> Herramientas del Sistema in my Spanish localized desktop). I'm sure this imposes a lot of potential "issues" from security to management, but maybe by having all users be part of the "print" group by default and only allow those users to have access to the printer's properties, and when an admin would like to tighten the degree to which the users can waste the printer's tonner/ink cartridges fixing the printer's quality setting to, for instance, "normal" and only the users part of the "print" group can modify this setting *only during their session*, and for that particular user *only* (should more than one user may have an open session in the system, like say, a remote login from ssh or remote desktop)
Gian Paolo Mureddu (gmureddu@prodigy.net.mx) said:
Other printer usability "issues".
I'm not so sure if anyone else has noticed this, but for home users it is a pain to not be able to adjust printer quality settings as a normal user and from the standard print dialogs (yes, much to my dislike, like it is in Windows®)
This is fixed in FC6, at least for apps ported to the new GTK+ printing code.
Bill
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Gian Paolo Mureddu (gmureddu@prodigy.net.mx) said:
Other printer usability "issues".
I'm not so sure if anyone else has noticed this, but for home users it is a pain to not be able to adjust printer quality settings as a normal user and from the standard print dialogs (yes, much to my dislike, like it is in Windows®)
This is fixed in FC6, at least for apps ported to the new GTK+ printing code.
Bill
That is good to know, and as a good news it is, it also came awfully late. However it is excellent news for those of us who serve as the home "sysadmins". Thanks for the heads up.
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