Re: [Cooker] New printing system

> Hi all,
>
> one of our plans for 2009.0 was to find a replacement for printerdrake.
> The most obvious choice was to use system-config-printer, as it is still
> under development and is the default tool in other distributions as well.
> Unfortunately it is not easy to replace a tool that is present
> in the distro for a long time, because it has a good integration
> and a lot of workarounds for many kinds of printers.
> I've been working basically in two packages to try to provide a new
> printing system,
> they are:
>
> 1) system-config-printer: provides the interface to add, remove, share
> printers. Provides
> a system tray applet which notifies the user about printing events and
> eventually asks the user to install required packages or missing firmware.
>
> 2) hal-cups-utils: in charge of detecting new printers, notify the
> applet to let the
> user know about what is going on, choose the better printer model, and
> so on.
>
> Me and Vanessa have tested some printers and it seems that it is working
> as expected,
> but as we can't have all the supported printers to test if everything is
> ok, it would be great if we could have some help from everybody.
>
> "urpmi system-config-printer" should be enough to disable the old
> printer detection system
> and enable the new one. (don't forget to restart the session)
> Usb printers are detected when you plug them in the system. To add
> parallel printers
> you must open system-config-printer and do the work manually.
>
> Some strings are not translated, both because they are not translated in
> upstream and
> because some strings were introduced only in mandriva version. I plan to
> put the po files
> in the svn soft (just like it is done in printerdrake), so then the
> contributors can
> help on translation.
>
> For a while, printerdrake and system-config-printer can coexist.
> If we decide that the new printing system is ok, we can drop
> printerdrake (or provide it in contrib?),
> and if we decide it is too early to replace printerdrake by
> system-config-printer, we can drop
> system-config-printer and go back to the place where we were before.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> --
> Tiago Salem Herrmann