To the HP developers at HP:
The problem here is that "gksudo hp-setup -i" (or "gksudo hp-setup" in
case of Qt4 not installed) does not work. The user has to run "hp-setup
-i" so that hp-setup runs as normal user and asks for the password for
administrative tasks when needed. Most users do not know that. Also the
Qt4 warning message can be irritating to some users. Also in "-1" mode
the password prompt is a GUI dialog popping up.
My suggestions:
1. If Qt4 is not installed, simply run in "-i" (interactive mode), without
warning message.
2. Make hp-setup with gksudo (or similar) working or let it give a clear
message that the user has to run it without gksudo.
3. Make sure that the password prompt always works, ask for the password in
text mode if no GUI utility/toolkit for popping up a password dialog is
available. Especially hp-setup should also work on a pure text console (like
SSHing into a server).
** Changed in: hplip
Status: New => Confirmed
** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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"hp-setup -i" should be more user-friendly
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