Bug 578203

Summary: yast2-scanner: provide overall driver support status information
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Johannes Meixner <jsmeix>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P4 - Low    
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: openSUSE 11.3   
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Attachments: pop up after selecting an unspported scanner model

Description Johannes Meixner 2010-02-09 09:05:13 UTC 
In /usr/share/sane/descriptions/*.desc
there is not only the ":status" for each
individual model of a particular driver
but also the overall driver support status
in the ":version" entry, in particular
  :version "unmaintained"
which provides useful information for the user
because for "unmaintained" drivers there cannot
be any kind of help if there are issues.

Therefore yast2-scanner should show this information
to the user so that the user knows in advance
whether or not he could expect some help if the
driver does not work.


The only question is regarding usability:

When a driver is "unmaintained", it does not mean
that this driver does not work at all. Even an
unmaintained driver could work perfectly well.

It only means that there is no longer anybody who
knows about the internal details of the driver
so that there is no help at all for a user
who has issues with an unmaintained driver.

The question is whether this information requires
a popup warning message to alert the user
or if it is sufficient to just show it as additional text
in the entries of the selection list of scanner models.

I do not like all those more and more poups
and therefore I think it is sufficient to have it
as text in the selection list of scanner models.
Comment 1 Martin Schmidkunz 2010-02-09 12:39:08 UTC 
Yes, just leave it as a list/table entry.
I saw, that in Milestone 1 there is a pop up already implemented, please remove it.
Thanks!

Additionally I would like to add:
* user must be able to read
to the requirements for openSUSE :-)
Comment 2 Johannes Meixner 2010-02-09 14:05:41 UTC 
I am not aware of any such popup.
Please provide a screenshot of what you have seen.
Comment 3 Martin Schmidkunz 2010-02-10 12:23:18 UTC 
Created attachment 341739 [details]
pop up after selecting an unspported scanner model
Comment 4 Martin Schmidkunz 2010-02-10 12:24:23 UTC 
To reproduce: Add > Select unspported model > Next and you will get the pop up as shown in the picture.
Comment 5 Johannes Meixner 2010-02-10 13:13:02 UTC 
Please advise what to do when an unspported model was selected!
Comment 6 Johannes Meixner 2010-02-11 16:22:30 UTC 
Implemented in a reasonable way in YaST SVN revision 60804.