Re: [Cooker] New printing system

> Friday 08 August 2008 23:26:00 kirjutas Tiago Salem Herrmann:
>  
>> Major Paine wrote:
>>    
>>> 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 :)
>>>      
>> hmm, do you have task-printing-misc installed?
>> what happens if you install it, and then try to reconfigure your printer?
>>    
>
> In my case it wasn't I urpmi'ed it and now I can see all of them. It seems
> that the system-config-printer doesn't require task-printing-misc
>