Bug#912768: hplip-data: hp-toolbox fsck
In general, it looks like that the HPLIP guys at HP are not testing well
the GUI part. This caused the following bugs, all forwarded upstream but
no fixes from upstream yet, only distro patches in the Ubuntu Cosmic
package of HPLIP (3.18.7+dfsg1-2ubuntu2):
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1688684
hp-check does not show distro names correctly but internal
index numbers for them
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1745383
QMessageBox() is called incorrectly
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1789184
hp-toolbox does not start at all
The drivers themselves (CUPS filters/PPD files and SANE module) seem to
work reasonably well, but for some small part of the device range a
proprietary plugin is needed, and some of these devices probably also
offer driverless IPP printing and this way one could work around the
proprietary plugin at least if it concerns only printing.
For diagnostic purposes you can perhaps also use hp-check instead of
hp-doctor as it has no GUI.
Till
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