-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris,
I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only solidifies my point which is: Native Gimp printing = FAIL Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribution backed by a large company. I have all the updates. The fact is that it is the Gimp maintainers who have failed to provide a working printing system. Surely, you aren't asserting that the Gutenprint folks are responsible for Gimp's broken native printing system... the Gimp folks need to deliver a complete piece of software. They have nobody to blame but themselves for the current mess. Gutenprint provides a printing system that works. The OpenSUSE folks have NOTHING to do with the fact that Gimp's printing is all but non-functional. I'm quite sick of this attitude in the Linux community that distro maintainers are responsible for broken software. The truth is that the distro maintainers are constantly patching and making up for the inadequacies of the upstream source packages to try to cobble something together that works. They often don't succeed. Regards, Erik. Chris Mohler wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Erik Lotspeich<e...@lotspeich.org> wrote: > >> The fact that the Gimp engineers haven't integrated these two printing >> systems is unacceptable -- they should be ashamed. Gimp will never be >> taken seriously until this printing nightmare is resolved. I am a >> software engineer myself, so it's not like I'm speaking simply from a >> user point-of-view. > > Please go here and read the history/purpose of gutenprint (below the news): > http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ > > Then direct your rant at whoever is packaging your distro ;) > > Chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkprymsACgkQY21D/n6bGwfK2gCfRWu2LnT14n97mX6sFP9a4ciG yJsAoMNrRXEH0OabgCnbFK6mm8SVKIuu =8HxB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
