Public bug reported:
Currently, Jockey only downloads a driver from OpenPrinting if it is
marked as the recommended driver for the detected printer.
This often leads to failure of getting a suitable driver for the
printer. Often OpenPrinting provides one driver for a printer, but it is
not marked "recommended", for example if a manufacturer uploads their
driver package but does not mark it as "recommended" for the supported
printers. Or OpenPrinting provides more than one driver and it depends
on the user's preferences what to take: The manufacturer's driver is
non-free, but the user of a high-security environment wants a free
driver to audit the source code, so he wants the second choice which
OpenPrinting offers. Or imagine if Epson uploads drivers for their
inkjets. There will be users who prefer Gutenprint due to the vast
amount of tweakable parameters.
Therefore please change Jockey so that it offers also downloadable
drivers which are not marked as "recommended". Also offer more than one
driver if there are several downloadable driver packages available.
Order them by importance: At first manufacturer-supplied drivers, then
fully free drivers, "recommended" is better than not "recommended", ...
Very important is that you also fix bug 269454, so that the user has the
information needed to decide if there is more than one driver.
** Affects: jockey
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
Status: New
** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
Status: New
** Changed in: jockey
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
** Also affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)
Target: None => ubuntu-8.10-beta
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Jockey should not only get "recommended" drivers from OpenPrinting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271286
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