Fedora7 and SourceForge HPLIP project representatives, Before grousing, I would like to thank both your organizations for the excellent work you are doing in making computing an enjoyable experience. It's made all the pain in getting a CS degree worth it, or at least most of it.
I think the listed problems may be of widespread interest because they affect the legions of us who are using HP multifunction scanner/printers. I speculate that fixing these issues may be somewhat trivial. My hplip RPM installation gripes, which may label me indelibly as a relative newbie, are as follows in order of importance: *1) After the hplip RPM had installed itself, the "show" flag was not set in the Application Menu* and I only found the "HP Device Manager" GUI while adjusting personal look and feel settings for the Main Menu. Scanner functions and printer functions were already implemented, but because I was unable to access the refresh functionality by using the Printer utility (as far I could see), I kept losing contact with the printer and had to reboot to actually print in some cases. It was a definite that I would loose printing if I had used the scanner utility prior in the session. (See suggestion 4 below). *2) the hplip RPM was difficult to find* and I only found it while looking at the all available packages feature in Yumex (gotta love that Yumex!). 3) last, and definitely least, *the version of hplip that was available for Fedora7 was not the latest version*; although that may have changed since I installed it a week back. I tried installing it manually, but encountered dependency issues which I was ultimately able to reduce from 7 to 4, but it might as well have been a million. 4) Just a suggestion: *the hplip application has a "refresh" feature* to keep contact with the printer/scanner *which I speculate might be possible to graft into the hpjis utililty*. If that were true, it would be a big improvement. I apologize in advance if it's already there and I missed it. I appreciate that, given how new Fedora7 is, and how frequently the hplip is updated, both organizations are doing an excellent job of keeping current. _Not having the latest version is not a problem_ for me personally, because my cheap old scanner/printer is now beautifully supported, thank you very much, sirs. Likewise, _improving the hpjis utility would not benefit me either_ as /*I am enjoying the ecstasy of a fully functional hplip installation*/, than you again. /Your somewhat humble servant/, Peter Ford Livingston ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
