Re: [Cooker] New printing system

> 2008/8/8 Tiago Salem Herrmann <salem@...>:
> > 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
>
> Hello
>
> It seem to work fined with my HP Photosmart 3210.
>
> But I see a major regression with this tool compared to printerdrake.
> There is no auto detection system for network printer. I need to enter
> manually printer IP address. Printerdrake can auto detect my printer.
> So yet printerdrake is more user-friendly for network printers.