Am Sonntag, 19. Februar 2012, 10:05:58 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Burkhard L?ck <lueck at hube-lueck.de> wrote: > > Am Freitag, 17. Februar 2012, 16:19:19 schrieb T.C. Hollingsworth: > >> SVN commit 1280589 by hollingsworth: > >> > >> scp-kde documentation for review/inclusion > >> > >> basic information written by GCI student Robin Kumar while the lists of > >> options are my fault > > > > Great work, some comments: > > > > 1) How to add a locally connected USB Printer, an obviously very common > > task is missing in Adding a New Printer or Class chapter. > > The New Printer dialog window has no GUI option to select a connection > > type "USB". So Joe User will have a problem to add an USB Printer using > > this module. > > Afaik a locally connected USB Printer is automatically added the first > > time the printer is connected. Then a Notification is displayed about > > the new printer. No need to use this module for that task. > > Yup, USB printers should be automatically detected and set up by the > Printer Applet that runs automatically on login in most default KDE > setups, so Joe User shouldn't have to touch anything here if he > doesn't want to. ;-) (A note about this should definitely be added > though.) > > IIUC, I don't think it's possible to instruct users how to manually > add a USB printer, as the device URI is dependent on manufacturer. > (My printer has > 'hp:/usb/Photosmart_C4200_series?serial=CN75FF91TR04VP' for instance; > I assume your Epson would be completely different.) Though I wouldn't > be surprised in the slightest if it was just HP that is weird here, > and other printer manufacturers have a standard URI path. If someone > could tell me what that is I'd happily add it. ;-) > EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%203000 EPSON Stylus SX110: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20SX110 EPSON Stylus DX4400: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20DX4400
> > 2) It would be a valuable addition to explain the different connection > > types (AppSocket/HP JetDirekt, Internet Printing ipp, LPD/LPR, Windows > > Samba etc.) and their use cases (from the cups documentation?). > > I'll do this. Looks like I also need to fix the screenshot of this > page. (I take screenshots in a seperate user account so my custom > window style doesn't affect them, but I guess that account doesn't > have permission to touch CUPS stuff so the connection type list is > empty.) > > > 3) The content of Printer Options tab depends on the selected printer. > > E. g. cups-pdf has only 2 options, but an EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000 has > > around 100 options on this page. > > A Hint explaining the different content of this tab should be added. > > Any chance you were exaggerating here? Or is this distro-specific > too? The Stylus Color 3000 only has ~12 options on this page on my > system. > $ grep -c OpenUI /etc/cups/ppd/EPSON_Stylus_COLOR_3000.ppd $ 96 Afaik these options are taken from the ppd file for the printer, so they are printer/driver specific. > At any rate, I guess I'll have to look at a bunch of different > printers and come up with a list of standard options here with a note > that this varies wildly by printer/system/phase of the moon. > Media Size, Print Quality, Media Type are the only common options for all printers (Brother HL-3040CN, EPSON Stylus COLOR 3000, EPSON Stylus SX110, Kyocera FS-1010, EPSON Stylus DX4400) here, except for cups-pdf, which only has Page Size + Output Resolution. Thanks. -- Burkhard L?ck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-doc-english/attachments/20120220/da65f611/attachment.html>
