Two issue we had with Feisty seem to pop up again:
1) The 3 HPLIP menu entries clutter up the menu for people that don't have HP
hardware.
In Feisty we did hide the HPLIP menu entries by setting NoDisplay=true in the
desktop files. The HPLIP entries could be made visible by clicking System >
Preferences > Main Menu which creates a copy of the desktop file in
~/.local/share/applications/ with NoDisplay=false. This approach should be
avoided as it can lead to duplicate HPLIP menu entries on dist-upgrades because
of name changes, additions or removals of desktop files.
2) People expect menu entries to work without the need to install extra
packages. The python-qt3 package is not installed by default because this
package and its dependencies take up too much space on the Ubuntu Desktop CD.
After clicking the HPLIP entries a GUI message "the python-qt3 package must be
installed for this program to work" is shown and the user needs to manually
install this package.
I believe the best way to avoid these issues is to create a hplip-gui
package as suggested by Till Kamppeter in bug #67892:
> So my suggestion is to move the 3 .desktop files into a
> separate binary package named "hplip-gui", but with the
> "NoDisplay=true" lines removed. "hplip-gui" will then depend on
> python-qt and hplip and it will only be installed by default on
> the Kubuntu (KDE-based) desktop CD but not on the desktop CDs
> of Ubuntu (GNOME) and Xubuntu (XFCE). the "hplip" package
> should recommend/suggest "hplip-gui" so that a package
> installer tool makes the user aware of the available GUI.
> So a user who wants to have the HPLIP GUIs on Ubuntu or Xubuntu
> has to install only the "hplip-gui" package and everything
> needed gets installed.
This would close the hplip upgrade task of bug #86893, bug
#67892/#134480 and this bug #137168.
** Changed in: hplip (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: New => Triaged
** Summary changed:
- hplip needs dependency on python-qt3
+ [Gutsy] hplip needs dependency on python-qt3
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[Gutsy] hplip needs dependency on python-qt3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137168
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