[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#452348: HPLIP doesn't mention new user-in-scanner-group requirement, other issues

[Christopher Martin]

On November 22, 2007 07:43:12 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Please don't do that. As long as hplip is part of the default
> installation, this pollutes the main menu with a vendor-specific
> application with zero integration to the rest of the desktop. The
> default etch installation looks like an advertisement for HP, let's
> not extend this to lenny.
> 
> If you install such a desktop file, I recommend that you add a
> "NotShowIn=KDE;GNOME" stanza so that it doesn't show up by default.
> It can then be enabled on a per-user basis simply by editing the
> menu.

..if, of course, the user ever realizes that the software (meaning the 
toolbox and associated features) exists. Because it won't be obvious 
without a KDE/GNOME menu entry to any GNOME/KDE user who doesn't 
already use the software. And getting the entry back isn't all that 
easy, at least in KDE, since the user will then have to know what file 
to look for in /usr/share/applciations, what to edit, etc. That strikes 
me as an exceedingly unreasonable thing to do to render accessible 
software that is already installed.

A much more user-friendly approach would be to include the entry, and 
let people who hate the entry hide it. Or uninstall the software. And 
if an HP icon is so inappropriate for the default desktop, then maybe 
the default desktop should be changed, so that HPLIP isn't installed 
for everyone. But that's not an hplip package problem, and so shouldn't 
be solved at the expense of the package's usability.

On November 22, 2007 12:59:38 Mark Purcell wrote:
> Just one point, we need to have one issue per report, otherwise we
> don't know to close when all/ some or one of the issues are resolved.
> I'll replicate your report to cover the multi-issues.

Sorry, I got carried away. Thanks for looking into things.

Cheers,
Christopher Martin
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