When I log into this rawhide machine, eggcups pops up a dialog asking for the printer driver. a) It is irritating that it say the driver for "HP Deskjet 3740" was not detected, even though there is an entry for "Deskjet 3740" under "Hewlett-Packard". Checking in hal-device-manager, the printer shows up with the fields info.product "Deskjet 3740" info.vendor "Hewlett-Packard" and the same strings for usb_device b) The dialog needs urgent HIG love
can you attach the full output of lshal. Thanks.
Created attachment 128020 [details] lshal output
HP has this problem where they don't know what to call themselves. If you notice in the lshal output usb.vendor = "Hewlett-Packard" but printer.vendor = "HP". We key off of printer.vendor because that is the IEEE string. Foomatics needs to be updated to reflect this.
John: this is usually because there just isn't an IEEE 1284 Device ID for the device concerned in the foomatic database, not because some string needs tweaking. Foomatic is completely consistent in the *user presentation* forms of the manufacturer names. It's only the IEEE 1284 Device ID MFR names that vary, and that is completely hidden from the user. Matthias: the dialog needs completely re-working for the new system-config-printer. No polishing should be done on the existing stuff until we've all had a talk about how the new thing should work.
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That dialog no longer exists.