Jockey should not only get "recommended" drivers from OpenPrinting

[Till Kamppeter]

Currently, Jockey only downloads a driver from OpenPrinting if it is marked as the recommended driver for the detected printer.

This often leads to failure of getting a suitable driver for the printer. Often OpenPrinting provides one driver for a printer, but it is not marked "recommended", for example if a manufacturer uploads their driver package but does not mark it as "recommended" for the supported printers. Or OpenPrinting provides more than one driver and it depends on the user's preferences what to take: The manufacturer's driver is non-free, but the user of a high-security environment wants a free driver to audit the source code, so he wants the second choice which OpenPrinting offers. Or imagine if Epson uploads drivers for their inkjets. There will be users who prefer Gutenprint due to the vast amount of tweakable parameters.

Therefore please change Jockey so that it offers also downloadable drivers which are not marked as "recommended". Also offer more than one driver if there are several downloadable driver packages available. Order them by importance: At first manufacturer-supplied drivers, then fully free drivers, "recommended" is better than not "recommended", ...

Very important is that you also fix bug 269454, so that the user has the information needed to decide if there is more than one driver.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I have the actual fix for that bug prepared, I just need to solve driver ID clashes now. E. g. there are two splix versions now, but they have the same package name. I need to disamgiguate those first.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Show both. The entries have different Foomatic driver entry names, like "splix" and "splix2". The packages differ by the version number. The differences are described shortly in the short description of the driver entries, which will get visible for the user. So he sees that one of the two is a development release.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in trunk, r483.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Uploaded to Intrepid, waiting in RM queue.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in upstream 0.5 beta 3.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5~beta3-0ubuntu1

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jockey (0.5~beta3-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug fix release 0.5 beta 3. Compared to our bzr snapshot,
    this has the following changes:
    - OpenPrintingDriverDB: Show non-recommended drivers, too, but mark the
      recommended one appropriately. (LP: #271286)
    - get_handlers(): If there is just one driver for a HardwareID, do not
      present it as recommended even if the Driver DB marks it as such, since
      it is just confusing.
    - jockey-gtk: If jockey shipped icons are not available (happens in some
      third-party themes), fall back to stock icons instead of crashing.
      (LP: #283363)
  * oslib.py, package_name(): Remove intra-paragraph line breaks; both GUIs
    already do their own line breaking according to the widget width, and
    having them in between looks ugly.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:56:55 +0200