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Re: [Cooker] New printing system
by Fabrice FACORAT
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2008/8/8 Tiago Salem Herrmann <salem@...>:
> 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.
IIRC this is a python prog ?
Do we have python bindings for URPM ? Indeed, sometimes we need to
install some packages on demand.
> 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.
feature wise, can we :
- easily share printers ?
- have support for HP printers
- ability to import PPD files, especially for network lasers printers
- ability to configure CUPS-less client all sending printings to a
central CUPS server ?
- are we going to have finally the ability to cofnigure printers (
especially cups-less ones ) in DrakX autoinstall ?
> "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.
what about IPP/LPD/JetDirect network printers ?
> 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?),
provide in contrib at least until system-config-printer have all the
features of printerdrake
> 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.
:)
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> 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.
IIRC this is a python prog ?
Do we have python bindings for URPM ? Indeed, sometimes we need to
install some packages on demand.
> 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.
feature wise, can we :
- easily share printers ?
- have support for HP printers
- ability to import PPD files, especially for network lasers printers
- ability to configure CUPS-less client all sending printings to a
central CUPS server ?
- are we going to have finally the ability to cofnigure printers (
especially cups-less ones ) in DrakX autoinstall ?
> "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.
what about IPP/LPD/JetDirect network printers ?
> 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?),
provide in contrib at least until system-config-printer have all the
features of printerdrake
> 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.
:)
--
Close the World, Open the Net
http://www.linux-wizard.net
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