Re: [Cooker] New printing system

> Friday 08 August 2008 21:10:34 kirjutas Youp3:
>  
>> 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.
>>    
>
> Strange, it finds all my network printers (samsung's kyoceras hp) and it does
> it a lot quicker then printerdrake but when it lets to chose driver there are
> so few options, like no samsung and kyocera :)
>