I did some tracing to printconf-gui to figure out if I can easily add
support to a Lexmark Z25 printer using the drivers supplied by Lexmark.
I filtered the output file for open statements. The result amazed me.
The "application" has a reason to be so heavy when started. It uses
Interpreter level languages like Python, Gtk and Pearl which keeps
opening the same files over and over again. Eventually it opens xml
files where the printer driver is defined. All together 2525 open
attempts of which 1714 were successful. And this is only the beginning
of inefficiency.
1. Do you know of any other tool that allows printer configuration
and control which is designed better?
2. Do you know of support for Lexmark Z25 that will work with either
printconf or your recommended printer configuration tool?
3. What about the simplicity and efficiency we had with Unix
machines? is it gone? forever?
P.S. I checked some time ago kate and found similar problems. Some files
were opened 16! times. Command line I used: strace kate
2>/tmp/kate.trace; grep open /tmp/kate.trace | grep -v ENOENT | cut
-d"," -f1 | sort | uniq -dc | sort -n | tail
I used similar methods when going after printconf-gui
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