On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:50 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > Why stop at printers? I've long believed there should be a generic > windows driver layer in linux that provides all the interfaces > of windows drivers to the kernel so you could use any > windows driver for linux :-). With all their bugs and other foibles... Seriously, printing on Windows can be an absolute nightmare. A plethora of ridiculous options, and really stupid behaviour. They seem to want you to pat your head, while rubbing your tummy, while hopping up and down on one leg, with your eyes shut. Any time my mum goes to print something on her PC, this huge control panel pops up with options that she'll never know what to do with. What I want is a standard interface between printer and computer (heck, why not ethernet), a standard protocol between them (IPP seems good), a standard language between then (why not Postscript), and actual intelligent printer design (say, why not, when I put A4 paper in the printer tray, the printer can see what size is in there, and tell the computer about it). Too bloody sensible, it'll never be done... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.23-78.2.50.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
