Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes:
> > cups + hplip is pretty robust. > Mostly because I want a minimal system. I have cups already which KDE can > use, I don’t need (or want) another tool that does the same job and that > has a lot of GUI stuff that my printer doesn’t support anyway (scanners > and such). hey, I run LXDE, and as folks know, I am a minimalist, despite have several machines with 8 core, 32 gigs of ram..... So you have compiled these before, with a minimum of flags activated? The know the number of flags, the smaller the binaries..... (as you know). > Furthermore, it installs a tool which I don’t need and pollutes my tray > and which has no off-switch. Tries to deactivate it in the past had not > succeeded (as I said, non-technical reasons). Ah, kde frustration? Been there, left that constant_change environment. Personally, I would not use kde as part of my printing solution. Cups + hplip work fine without kde involvement. > Also, with every update it wants to download the proprietary plugin anew > (which I had trouble with in the past b/c I did offline updates) or else > no printo worko. OK, so mask the offending codes? > Lastly, this plugin installation doesn’t work if system python was not > version 2, so every time I had to eselect python 2, install hplip, and > switch back again. Weird. I have python 3.3 set and it is fine? Ok, set hplip to use the latest (stable) version of python 2.x only. > You may certainly call me backward minded, but it worked in the past[TM] > without hplip, and I would like that again. Frank, I would not call you this. I enjoy running minimal systems too. Did you have a ppd file setup via cups? (/etc/cups/ppd) YOu mave have a copy of the old ppd config file in the cups/ppd dir? There are a myriad of ways to set up printing. It is your choice. If you go with somethhing nobody knows about, your most likely will be 'alone', imho. What is your computer-printer interface? (usb/eth/par/ser/rf)? Do have sys-apps/hwids installed? With hplip, I only set these flags: X hpcups libnotify, but my printer is ethernet. On a side note, you may want to try lxqt-0.8.0 in a few weeks, when it is released..... James
