My thanks go to ESR

Posted Nov 11, 2006 12:52 UTC (Sat) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

My printers have now worked well for such a long time (in terms of drivers that is) that I had almost forgotten the little bit about the CUPS adventures. Very well pointed out.

I, too, learned at one point (on SUSE Linux) that you had to edit /etc files to get anything done, OR ELSE know about the special CUPS loging that allows you to do something about (say) a printer that is falsely advertised as unresponsive.

Sometime in 2004, the KDE Printing dialogue started to address this issue (NOTE not SUSE's YAST) but to this day I still can never remember which password I am supposed to type.

Let alone the joy of guessing how to add a printer using YAST (SUSE 9.1 for that matter) - or not SUSE's YAST (Lexmark's Intensely Intellectually Proprietary PPD File comes with its own separate installer).

Which original intellectual achievement is it that makes those PPD files so special, by the way? Does anyone know? It's kind of like patenting a specific combination of settings in a GUI that was written by someone else, no?