Update: As several people pointed out, I totally owe Tim a beer.
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14 Responses to “Greatest feature in Ubuntu Gutsy”
Yeah the killer feature for me is that they’ve included the foo2zjs driver, which I haven’t known about before, and it makes my laserjet 1022 work perfectly, for the first time, like, ever on any distro. The slight problem, and the reason it is not present in some other distros, is that it, I was told, communicates with the printer over a patented protocol. The driver itself is GPL though.
@SW: or OpenSolaris copied FedoraProject.
Calum Benson published the first draft in May, 2007 and Fedora Core 6 was released in October, 2006. The UI has basically been the same since its first release.
Now maybe the same guys can apply some of the talent to CUPS network printers, so they won’t suck?
How do they suck (and yes, I’ve filed bugs):
CUPS accesses EVERY single network printer it can find. Every time you try to add a printer.
You can’t change the printer name using the GUI.
If you change the printer name by editing the conf file, it changes the properties of the printers, so you can’t print double-sided.
I liked it better when I was using smbprint.
Anyway, congratulations on your work.
Please revise, rewrite, or just throw away CUPS network printers.
Thanks again.
How about toggling the font preferences to slight hinting and enabling subpixel rendering?
Should look good.
This is system-config-printer, the new FedoraProject printing utility which appeared in Fedora Core 6 and later.
The maintainer’s homepage has more details: http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/system-config-printer/
Looks like something they just copied from OpenSolaris
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Documents/GUI/
Yeah the killer feature for me is that they’ve included the foo2zjs driver, which I haven’t known about before, and it makes my laserjet 1022 work perfectly, for the first time, like, ever on any distro. The slight problem, and the reason it is not present in some other distros, is that it, I was told, communicates with the printer over a patented protocol. The driver itself is GPL though.
I hope you mean the driver, and not the popup.
@SW: or OpenSolaris copied FedoraProject.
Calum Benson published the first draft in May, 2007 and Fedora Core 6 was released in October, 2006. The UI has basically been the same since its first release.
[...] Looks like the New Printer notification bubbles from Fedora 8 are going down well in Ubuntu Gutsy. [...]
[...] will add polish to great stack we have built up. [read this post in: ar de es fr it ja ko pt ru zh-CN ] [...]
>> More stuff like this please.
You need to ask this to fedora developers as they are the ones who developed it. Ubuntu does nothing more than packaging it.
Great!
Now maybe the same guys can apply some of the talent to CUPS network printers, so they won’t suck?
How do they suck (and yes, I’ve filed bugs):
CUPS accesses EVERY single network printer it can find. Every time you try to add a printer.
You can’t change the printer name using the GUI.
If you change the printer name by editing the conf file, it changes the properties of the printers, so you can’t print double-sided.
I liked it better when I was using smbprint.
Anyway, congratulations on your work.
Please revise, rewrite, or just throw away CUPS network printers.
Thanks again.
Hurray for stealing good ideas! Now to get a user-friendly string for the printer name instead of Desktjet_845C.
too bad for the old style gnome icon used istead of (naming specs) printer icon
Lapo, I made a patch to fix the issue a few days ago
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416740
Ops, indeed my patch is for eggcups hosted @svn.gnome.org. Not the same component, sorry :/