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Month: October 2011

Re: [trinity-users] printcap?

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:40:41 -0500
>> If only it were so easy.  Maybe it is.
>>
>> I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty.  Some rough edges, but definitely
>> usable.
>>
>> One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
>>
>> So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
>> Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
>>
>> Is that even doable?  If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
>> /etc/printcap ... :-)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> This is definitely a bug and needs to be fixed before release.  It would
> probably have been better for you to file a bug report when you first
> noticed it; that way we could have isolated the issue more quickly.
>
> Also, what rough edges are you referring to?  We would like to fix as many
> of those as possible prior to release.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tim
>

Actually I just tried to reproduce the bug on local Maverick and Natty
systems and could not.  When I went to the Add Printer Wizard it rebuilt
the driver database and presented me with a list of printer models to
choose from.

Are we talking about the same control panel utility here?

Tim