Two issue we had with Feisty seem to pop up again: 1) The 3 HPLIP menu entries clutter up the menu for people that don't have HP hardware. In Feisty we did hide the HPLIP menu entries by setting NoDisplay=true in the desktop files. The HPLIP entries could be made visible by clicking System > Preferences > Main Menu which creates a copy of the desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/ with NoDisplay=false. This approach should be avoided as it can lead to duplicate HPLIP menu entries on dist-upgrades because of name changes, additions or removals of desktop files. 2) People expect menu entries to work without the need to install extra packages. The python-qt3 package is not installed by default because this package and its dependencies take up too much space on the Ubuntu Desktop CD. After clicking the HPLIP entries a GUI message "the python-qt3 package must be installed for this program to work" is shown and the user needs to manually install this package.
I believe the best way to avoid these issues is to create a hplip-gui package as suggested by Till Kamppeter in bug #67892: > So my suggestion is to move the 3 .desktop files into a > separate binary package named "hplip-gui", but with the > "NoDisplay=true" lines removed. "hplip-gui" will then depend on > python-qt and hplip and it will only be installed by default on > the Kubuntu (KDE-based) desktop CD but not on the desktop CDs > of Ubuntu (GNOME) and Xubuntu (XFCE). the "hplip" package > should recommend/suggest "hplip-gui" so that a package > installer tool makes the user aware of the available GUI. > So a user who wants to have the HPLIP GUIs on Ubuntu or Xubuntu > has to install only the "hplip-gui" package and everything > needed gets installed. This would close the hplip upgrade task of bug #86893 and bug #67892 again. -- [Gutsy] HPLIP menu entries https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134480 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
