On Tuesday 28 July 2009 15:30:10 Kevin Kofler wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
But doesn't that mean that hplip is useless? If you can't set up your printer, it is. I'm not being aggressive, just practical. Happy or not, if you have an HP device that needs hplip, you have to be able to use hp-setup. It's not as though there is a -tui version.
You can use system-config-printer or system-config-printer-kde to set up your printer just fine, there's no need to use the vendor-specific hp-setup tool.
I did once use s-c-p. It worked, after a fashion, but you can't use it to set up every feature of the device.
Another reason hplip-gui is not installed by default is that the RH folks objected to a vendor-specific tool (hp-toolbox) being in the default menus. That said, hp-toolbox is the only UI which allows you to check the cartridge state or align or clean the cartridges at the moment.
And a few other things too, including fax setup. It doesn't have to be in the default menu anyway. It just has to be available, just as things like nv are. I still think that the two (hplip and hplip-gui) should be linked if not packaged together. It makes no sense any other way.
Anne