Use of the CLI in Ubuntu (Was: ubuntu-desktop & brltty)

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:31, john wrote:
> Please reply on sounder at lists.ubuntu.com, I think this is starting to
> get off-topic for devel.
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:25:01PM -0400, Peter Whittaker wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-17-04 at 15:42 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > edit /etc/default/hplip to disable hplip.
> Which is an argument *against* cluttering the Ubuntu GUI with unnecessary
> options. If power users want to fiddle with things they can use the CLI,
> regular users don't care.
Asking them into the CLI just to get a printer working is a bit rich though. 
It is an option that everybody needs and should be easily accessible (I'm 
coming into this thread late, but I assume it is about printers as it has to 
do with the hplip package).

Sasha