Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: system-config-printer
Configuring a new printer is awfully painful in Lucid :-(
(1) I just tried to configure my PostScript network printer (a Kyocera
FS1800+, correctly identified in the first step of system-config-
printer).
(2) In the next step, jockey-gtk starts to search for drivers. After
quite a while, it offers a list of ca. 35 drivers (!?). Neither does
jockey-gtk mark the relevant one (I have a Kyocera printer, remember?),
nor does it even sort this list. OK, I painfully scroll through the
list, hunting for the Kyocera driver and selecting it. Now I 'activate'
the driver. Activating obviously means installing - so why don't name
this button 'Install driver'?
Installing takes full 2 minutes (fast internet connection, 2,4 GHz Dual
Core Desktop CPU, 6 GB RAM). (jockey-backend runs at 100 % CPU during
the whole time, completly exhausting one of my two cores. What does it
do, in gods name?)
(3) Next, I have to 'Close' the driver dialog. I don't want to close, I
want to continue! Whatever.
Next, I get again (!) the choice to select a driver. Out of some 80
manufactures (my printer is still a Kyocera, remember?), out of hundreds
of models. OK, I understand, previously I *installed* driver (though the
dialog said I activated one), no I *select* one.
No Ubuntu beginner will ever understand what he/she had done now and why
it was so complicated. Installing the same printer on Mac OS X (which
also uses CUPS!) is done within 30 seconds and with a few mouse clicks.
PS: Now comes the fun part. On another Lucid test installation (I am
book author and have been writing books on Ubuntu since 5.04) I choose
*not* to install any driver, completely dropping step (2) from above.
And guess what: The printer configuration still works. (I thought it
would, I never had to install any drivers to use my printer.)
To get back to this bug report:
- please sort the drivers in jockey
- please make the driver installation optional and clearly say so
What happened to Ubuntu's printer configuration? This is a huge step
back!
** Affects: system-config-printer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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system-config-printer: make driver installation optional
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564633
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