[Desktop 12.10 Topic] The future of third-party driver installation

[Martin Pitt]

Jo-Erlend Schinstad [2012-04-20  4:01 +0200]:
> Exactly. So why does "the driver application" currently not show any
> open drivers?

The only case when it does that right now is when there are open
source printer drivers available on openprinting.org for a printer you
are about to set up.

But the general answer to your question is "because there is no need
to". We already ship pretty much all free drivers that are available,
and Linux uses them automatically.

Martin

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