Package: foomatic-filters-ppds Severity: normal Hello,
as a normal stupid user (when it comes to printing) I tried to setup cups. Let me express what goes wrong from new users point of view. Your package was suggested while installing cups. So why not, a database that may know my settings sounds good. But what did I get? A dozen of debconf dialogs that ask stuff that does not have anything to do with reality. Why does it ask about which queue I am using while I am installing _CUPS_? Fsck that. To be userfriendly, it should find out. If it does not know for sure, it should at least place an expected default. Instead, it seems to be a list with some random entry, hardly documented what each of them means and which do you know. Crap. There is a question about the interfaces. What is ipp? What is serial? More than that, there is no serial port at all here. Damn, check that and do not suggest unpossible options to the user. gs question is also a such candidate. There is only one gs and only one going installed. Why do you suggest X alternatives? What do they mean? What hides behind the "custom setting"? Where can I customise it. What does expect me when I choose it? Same applies for the accounting questions. I guess it asks it also if CUPS is not beeing installed. Please read the DIN EN ISO 9241 part 9 and following to learn the basic rules for human interace design. And maybe VDI 3850 if you can get that. Why do we need such dialogs at all if they do not help much? Just for the legacy "we have to use debconf" reason? Regards, Eduard. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
