Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 02, 2004 05:13 AM
I'm glad someone else thought exactly the same thing when reading that portion.
I absolutely hate when a program makes assumptions that totally break basic tasks. Plus a printer dialog that automatically scans the entire network for printers would not only start very slow, it would badly wreck our network (and probably fail since some printers aren't on the same subnet).
A better approach may be to have a "scan for printers" options, so that power users don't have to waste their time and network resources on an unneeded step. Remember we don't want to make the interface harder for system administrators to use.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 02, 2004 05:13 AMI absolutely hate when a program makes assumptions that totally break basic tasks. Plus a printer dialog that automatically scans the entire network for printers would not only start very slow, it would badly wreck our network (and probably fail since some printers aren't on the same subnet).
A better approach may be to have a "scan for printers" options, so that power users don't have to waste their time and network resources on an unneeded step. Remember we don't want to make the interface harder for system administrators to use.
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