Of course I can build the latest versions from source, even though sometimes that means backtracking and building all the latest libraries from source first. But as an average user trying to do average things on a home computer, should I have to build things from source? Of course not. Should an average user really even know about source, past a general idea of what it's all about? Nope.
On Windows or on a Mac, if there's a new version of a program, they just release a new binary and there you go. It works on your current system. Heck, it's even usually backwards and forwards compatible. Now there's lots of other areas that Windows and Mac get wrong, but software handling isn't one of them. Windows does it better, and Mac does it much, much better. Why does all this bug me? Aside from the inconvenience of it all, I'm afraid if Linux in general continues along these paths it'll marginalize itself and never achieve the desktop saturation that I wish it would. This bug is a perfect example of that. In today's day and age, printing and PDFs are a major part of common computer use, and yet here it's marked as a low priority item. Something like this that directly impacts the user should be high priority. They shouldn't have to wiggle their mouse to make it work. You or I or the other people here might put up with it, but an average user, a new user, might say, "This sucks, I can't even print my documents. Oh well, back to Windows / Mac". -- evince sometimes yield error "Error printing: Too many failed attempts" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/359975 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
