Missing Features – Feeling Brian Proffitt’s Pain

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 17, 2010

[ Thanks to Brendan Scott for this
link. ]

“Brian Proffitt has written a story about how he
laments missing features in a recent version of openSuSE. This is
an article in sympathy, as my own experiences have been similar,
although I’ve been reluctant to blog about them in case they’re not
really missing and I just don’t know where to look.

“My first, and greatest, lament is the absence of kprinter.
Kprinter is (was) one of my favourite ‘office’ applications. I knew
I could simply send everything off to kprinter and it would print
things the way I liked them and, on occasion, allow me to make one
off changes to how things print. Now, with kprinter gone every time
I print something I need to navigate the interface of the
particular program and set my requirements. Unlike kprinter, most
programs don’t store them, so every time I print I have an extra 5
or 10 mouse clicks/navigations to do just to get something to
print.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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