On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 12:41 +0000, Angus MacGyver wrote: > This is almost a "go away and learn it it yourself" attitude, which > really ain't gonna win beginners over to FC*. Yes, but the "I had to learn it the hard way, so you should, too," attitude is quite strong across Linux, in general. What I find really objectionable is that *IT* is the computer, it's the thing that can read the hardware identification, it should do the comparisons for what it should do related to that, and so on. Some things are getting better at that, but sometimes only partially. A case in point: I guided a friend, over the phone, to install his new printer. It was relatively painless getting the printer configured in CUPS. It found out what sort of printer it was, offering it by name on the list, initially. Though two steps later we had to pick HP from the list, and after that the new type of DeskJet was pre-selected, but we had to "okay" it. That part was easy enough, even though we had to make decisions, the options to choose from were relatively obvious (other than having no idea what the difference is between the new and older Deskjet printer driver is). The awkward, as yet unsolved, part is that although the CUPS "print test page" feature worked, you can't print a webpage from Firefox, or any other web browser, despite this printer being picked as the printer to use. Evolution can print, if you pick the printer specifically, the generic Postscript option does nothing. GEdit can print. Some other things can, others can't. It beggers belief where the problem lay. If I don't find the solution this morning, I'll start another thread on this issue itself. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
