hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Mar 27 03:24:19 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:16 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Bernard Johnson wrote:
>
> > I was working on finding/reporting some bugs with the hplip package and
> > noticed that there was no menu entry. Knowing that a graphical program
> > with no menu entry wasn't the norm, I was about to file a bug, except
> > when searching for a duplicate, I came across this:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170762
> > mclasen at redhat.com:
> > "We don't give free ad space to HP on our menus..."
>
> > I find that to be both an interesting and hypocritical comment.
>
> Bernard has a point. Usability issues (e.g. David's comments) isn't an
> excuse for half-hearted packaging. If hplip is in fedora, it ought to be
> packaged properly (.desktop menu, icons, and all).
Blindly following packaging guidelines is not an excuse for poor
usability.
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