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[David McGlone]

On Thursday 01 October 2009 4:34:17 pm Fred A. Miller wrote:
>  David McGlone wrote:
> Anyone here using SuSE with KDE 4?
>
>  Yepper!
>
> I am considering switching distro's again and I'm wondering if SuSE has a
> good scanning application.
>
> I don't know if I should be upset with Kubuntu or KDE. One or the other as
> broken too many things!
>
>  You should be using KDE 4.3, no matter what distro.

Sadly, I am running 4.3 :-(
>
> Kooka has been replaced, which was a great scanning application, it
> automatically detected my printer/scanner/fax device for SANE.
>
> SANE will not detect the correct hardware whatsoever on my box, it keeps
> insisting my hauppauge tv card is my scanner and it has no configuration
> options to change this whatsoever!
>
> There's a few other things that are severely broken and just way too many
> configuration options have been removed from system settings.
>
> This is enough to make any Linux user want to go back to windows!
>
> I feel like I went from a Lamborghini to a Pinto with more choices of
> colors!
>
>  SOME of the KDE 3.5 configs are still missing, but many are back in, but
> in the 4.3 release. What scanner make and model do you have?

I have the  HP OfficJet 5610 all in one. Kooka detected this right off the bat 
and it works great. I can't believe KDE or kubuntu would remove something that 
worked.

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Blessings
David M.