Bug 140900
| Summary: | system-config-printer does not install a ppd from file correctly | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Walter Mueller <walter.mueller> |
| Component: | system-config-printer | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-29 16:14:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Are you looking under "Kyocera Mita", which is what the PPD sets Manufacturer to? Why do the XML file names bother you? They are not user-visible. There is no entry for "Kyocera Mita" The XML file names are printed on ther terminal, so i can see them. If i install PPD files for different printers the ppd-ppd1-*, ppd-ppd2-*, ... naming scheme is confusing You probably have to restart system-config-printer after importing the PPD (this is fixed in rawhide). I don't see your point with the XML file names at all. How do they confuse you? You never have to choose between different XML file names. I did restart system-config-printer after importing the PPD but nothing changed. It is fixed in rawhide. After i rebuilt system-config-printer-0.6.117-1.src.rpm from rawhide and installed /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/system-config-printer-0.6.117-1.i386.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/system-config-printer-gui-0.6.117-1.i386.rpm i can see Kyocer Mita in the printer manufacturer menu and select and use the correct printer driver. My point with the XML file names is the aversion of a long time systemadministrator against obscure naming scheme when it would be easy to use descriptive names. I had to install and delete the ppd files to test this case. I also experimented with different languages of this driver. I always had to open the file to see which PPD it belonged to. If you install the same driver twice then next /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd* is created, the existing is not used. I missed a choice to delete a wronly installed PPD Avoiding overwrites is intentional -- you might want to have two different PPDs alongside one another, but for the same model. Anyway, glad this is fixed in rawhide. Thanks for testing. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After I install the PPD file for the Kyocera Mita FS-1020 via system-config-printer -> Action -> Import PPD the printer driver is not available using the Printer driver menu Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-0.6.116-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (The printer is already installed using a generic Postscript entry) 1. Start system-config-printer 2. Choose Action -> Import PPD 3. Select files /tmp/Kyocera_Mita_FS-1020_English.ppd 3. Choose Printer -> Edit -> Printer driver There is no entry for the printer Actual Results: Messages in the terminal where system-config-printers was started Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-Resolution.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-KCCollate.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-KCVersion.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-InputSlot.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-PageSize.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-Duplex.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-Smoothing.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/opt/ppd-ppd1-MediaType.xml Reading /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/ppd.xml Writing /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/ppd.xml Expected Results: An entry for the Kyocera FS-1020 should appear in the Printer driver menu Additional info: I think the installed files should use the printer name not a generic name like ppd-ppd1-*, ppd-ppd2-*, ...