[Foomatic] Using usb IDs for autodetection

Kurt Pfeifle kpfeifle at danka.de
Wed Apr 14 12:36:13 PDT 2004


Grant Taylor wrote:

> The user is supposed to select based up on the English comments
> describing how each particular printer/driver pairing actually works.
> In fact these comments are a bit hit-or-miss, and AFAIK they are not
> actually shown to real live users in any actual printer configuration
> utility.

The "KDE Add Printer Wizard" *does* show them, if you click on
the "Driver Information" button.

("kaddprinterwizard" also doesn't use pre-compiled PPDs, but
generates the PPD from the XML Foomatic DB if it is installed).

Cheers,
Kurt





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