Make Brother MFC an overall Plug and Play experience
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| jockey (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
There has been alot of discussion on the Brother printer and scan drivers. While the brother printer packages work like a charm, setting up the scanner is still a challenge (for my parents for example). Woudn't it be great to simply run an adept batch as soon as a brother component is detected, to grad the appropriate brother-printer package and install it, and likewise do for the scanner and brscan-skey tool ? Set up the usb access nodes in the fstab and the rules for udev and simply make it work?
Because if you set up a new system and you have your Brother connected already, it will be configured automatically, though with a non-working driver. Even if you install the brother printer packages afterwards, you wonder why your printer isn't working. You have to delete it and wait for it to be set up again properly with the new drivers. While this may be obvious for some geeks, it can be quite confusing for the new folks...
just make it plug and play :)
