Re: More HP AIO scanning woes

[Gottfried]

Hi T G-R,

for Your information:

Because I can't scan in Guix at the moment,
I had to install a second distro called "GNUinOS"

I installed also the MATE desktop and hplip and
you can see an icon of "HP"

Additionally there are icons in the programm menu

I made 4 fotos that you can see in case I klick on the icon hp,

Kind regards

Gottfried


Am 13.08.22 um 15:38 schrieb Tobias Geerinckx-Rice:
> Hi Gottfried!
>
> Gottfried 写道：
> > "hplip" doesn't appear anywhere, so I can't open it and to choose a 
> > scanner.
>
> I probably can't fix your problem, but note that packages don't 
> necessarily install a command named after them, or an ‘icon’ (as you 
> mentioned in a previous mail).  Only a tiny fraction of all packages do 
> both.
>
> There is no ‘hplip’ command or programme; don't wast time looking for one.
>
> The hplip package does provide several small tools, none of them named 
> hplip, of which two look relevant:
>
> - hp-scan, which throws an error message here because I don't have  a 
> supported device;
> - hp-uiscan, which also throws an error, but it's ~graphical~ (so  it 
> might be a better tool for you—if it works!)
>
> There are many other hp-* commands that you can see by typing ‘hp-’<TAB> 
> at a shell prompt.
>
> However.
>
> Expect a number of these tools not to work properly.  For example, they 
> might look for files in the wrong place or try to write to the store, 
> simply because they've never been tested.  It is quite possible that you 
> are the first to ever try using them with the intended hardware.  You'll 
> have to see, and report any errors you get, and *perhaps* we can help 
> fix them.
>
> The joys of using a tiny distribution: sometimes you really are the 
> first person to try something :-)
>
> > Probably no Guixer has a HP printer/scanner all in one,
> > so nobody was able to help me.
>
> Very possible.  I don't.
>
> > Or any other problem that hplip doesn't appear in my MATE Desktop.
>
> See above; I think you're expecting something to happen that won't.  
> We'd need to add .desktop files for that to happen, but that would 
> require actually testing the tools to make sure they are useful (IMO).
>
> Maybe we should have ‘I own XXX hardware’ teams…
>
> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R


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