when you plugin a printer (usb) after the boot gnome-cups-manager does not show it

Kristof Vansant de_lupus at pandora.be
Tue Nov 16 09:43:46 CST 2004


another weird thin:
when you select use a detected printer:
in this case a Brother HL-5030 series 
and I select Forward it asks me for the manufacturer and the model.
Seems like he already found this data why ask it again to the user?

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:35 +0100, Kristof Vansant wrote:
> When you plugin a printer (usb) after the boot gnome-cups-manager does
> not show it in the autodetected list. I had to reboot to see it. Why is
> this? 
> 
> PS: wouldn't it be better if a new printer is found it is autoconfigured
> so to user doesn't need to run gnome-cups-manager. Showing a little
> notification that a printer (foo) was found and auto configured should
> be enough. I think fedora does it like that these days.
> -- 
> lupusBE (Kristof Vansant Belgium)
> 
> 




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