Hi!

I know, FC6T2 is approaching, feature freeze was some days ago and it's quite late for this sort of thing. But I'd like to try this anyway on my never ending mission "improve hardware support in Fedora" (*1).

I'd like to get gutenprint (http://gutenprint.sf.net), successor of gimp-print into FC6. Why? Well, the main reason: it supports a lot of printers that are otherwise unsupported. Gimp-Print 4.2.7 (from Jul 2004) supports 554 printers, gutenprint 5.0 supports 732 printers (both numbers according to linuxprinting.org). And there are a lot of important new and currently shipping printers that are supported in gutenprint, but not in gimp-print.

That's the main reason, but there are also a lot of other improvements in gutenprint 5.0 -- those people interested in details can read them in the release notes http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=435706&group_id=...

There is already a gutenprint package updater review for Extras at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199108 But Hardware support IMHO is something that belongs in Core if possible (e.g. in this case). So how do we get this done? The maintainer of gimp-print in Core lacks hardware to test the package.

CU thl

(*1) -- we still don't have a Intel 945GM driver for FC5 -- we got updated nv drivers some days ago, but i810 wasn't updated to 1.5.1 -- but that one should work on 945GM according to https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-July/msg00016.html