Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2004 11:19 PM
For once, ESR is on the ball. And the suggestion that CUPS is screwed under Fedora (what isn't, by the way?) shouldn't be too surprising. Under RH9, the CUPS daemon seems to die silently before you even get close to the CUPS administration tool in KDE's control panel (which offers no reasonable way to restart it).
For ages, UNIX printing was about arcane shell scripts in special directories and everything pretending to be a line printer from the 1960s. The only thing that seems to have happened in the last decade is that people have added another badly connected layer on top and pretended that they've solved the usability issues.
Go into a shiny dialogue, click a few buttons - who knows whether it's all doing anything underneath? Because it might as well not be doing anything at all.
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The UNIX Printing Nightmare Continues
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2004 11:19 PMFor ages, UNIX printing was about arcane shell scripts in special directories and everything pretending to be a line printer from the 1960s. The only thing that seems to have happened in the last decade is that people have added another badly connected layer on top and pretended that they've solved the usability issues.
Go into a shiny dialogue, click a few buttons - who knows whether it's all doing anything underneath? Because it might as well not be doing anything at all.
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