[Gimp-user] Printing issue

[Erik Lotspeich]

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Hi Gene,

Your point is well taken.  I do not expect the Gimp people to keep on
top of printing at all.

But why not have Gutenprint be a pre-requisite to Gimp?  Why deliver a
broken default printing system?

For the record, my distro does deliver the Gutenprint Gimp plug-in, but
it wasn't installed by default.  As I mentioned before, this is not a
distro issue.

Software should "just work".  We should all be moving toward this goal.

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Those of us who've used Gimp for the last half decade and more, just know that 
> we should also pull in gutenprint, or if your distro doesn't have it, build it 
> from the tarball, its not THAT difficult.

In my opinion, this attitude is completely wrong.  Gimp needs to work
out-of-the-box.  As I mentioned, I used Gimp for many years and I was
caught by surprise by this Gutenprint thing.

Just imagine a novice Linux user.  Imagine your mother-in-law who wants
to print a photo with Gimp.  She will fail.  That is my point.  I think
that you all are missing the point that I'm making.  Your mother-in-law
will be confused by "Print" and "Print with Gutenprint".  Nobody has to
worry about this garbage with Photoshop -- the user does File->Print and
it "just works".  Us open-source guys are smart talented people.  Let's
make software that actually works and is easy-to-use.

Regards,

Erik.
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