severity 579154 wishlist tags 579154 + upstream thanks Hi Fabian!
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:46:55 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Tags: squeeze What is the reason for this tag? This has nothing to do with squeeze (or I have missed an announcement), since it affects both testing and unstable. > Hi, on a freshyl installed Debian desktop system a find a strange icon called > "HPLJ 10xx Replaced Paper" in my Applications menu. Well, I do not see that as a strange icon: at least it represents exactly the product the software it is written for, which is not the case for other icons, e.g. Ekiga or VLC. And I found it even better than the "Default Printer" icon in the GNOME Preferences in unstable ;-) > The problem I find in this icon is (1) that I don't own such a printer /me neither, FWIW. > and (2) that its rather ugly GUI (sorry) doesn't fit to my GNOME > desktop in any way. Sorry and do not get it personal, but this is not a reason for a "minor" bug, instead I changed the severity to wishlist. > I'd like to suggest two possible ways how to reduce this negative > desktop experience: Again, do not get it personal, but what does "negative desktop experience" mean? The icon is there and it is even nicer than other *default* GNOME icons, it states one single action (replace the paper for the HPLJ 10xx printers). > 1) This icon gets disabled by default in the > /usr/share/applications/hplj1020.desktop file Which means that: - we patch upstream without a valid reason. - users who need this software must read the documentation (which we as Debian have to write and keep updated), which is not a good option IMHO. > or 2) this icon gets disabled by default in GNOME (thus CCing > pkg-gnome team). I kept the cc: (and thank you for it!), but I would say, again, that there is no valid reason for that. > I do think, however, that this package is usefull enough to keep it as > part of a standard install so I would not suggest to remove it from > this task (which would theoretically make a third option). I would not say that this is an option at all: should we remove sane because only a minority of the users will use it? I would be happy to find a solution which fits all users, but I am not sure there would be one in this case... Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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