hplip: hp-toolbox advertising?

[dragoran]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:13 -0600, Bernard Johnson wrote:
>> > Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:27 -0600, Bernard Johnson wrote:
>> > >> mclasen at redhat.com:
>> > >> "We don't give free ad space to HP on our menus..."
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> I find that to be both an interesting and hypocritical comment.
>> > >
>> > > FWIW, the comment was referring to the HP icon in the menus.
>> > >
>> >
>> > That was my assumption, but I could have read it any number of other
>> > ways as well.
>> >
>> > Do you still feel the same way given the other examples that I posted?
>> >
>>
>> David outlined a number of reasons why the hplip stack is really less
>> than ideal from a desktop integration perspective. So yes, I still think
>> that hplip and assorted gui tools are not the solution we want and do
>> not really move us closer to the goal of making printing suck less.
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> PS And no, I did not do an exhaustive search through all the menus
>> before making the comment about the icon. If the VNC icon is just a
>> company icon in disguise, the same comment applies there too.
>>
>
> wow wow wow,
>
> I don't know about you guys, but I use the HPLIP stack. And I don't
> know what is more user-friendly than having it all working "out of the
> box". The only reason I haven't noticed the menu shortcuts were
> missing is that it all works so well. Then again, maybe if they were
> in there I would have noticed my ink was running low a lot earlier.
>
> If the software meets Fedora's already strict legal requirements, then
> it should be packaged like any other package. The reason given for not
> including the shortcut is plain silly. Or at the very list, if that is
> going to be a reason used, then all packages need to have generic
> icons because the whole point of an icon to a program is recognition
> and advertisement. HP wrote the stack, why can't their icon be used.
>
> This is being overly nitpicky about things.
>
+1
> Peace.