system-config-printer
Rahul Sundaram
rahulsundaram at yahoo.co.in
Tue Feb 1 16:10:43 UTC 2005
Hi
>
> A quick glance at gnome-system-tools web page and we
> see that it doesn't
> have a printing capplet.
it doesnt. since a rewrite is planned, we could use
gst framework for the new tool.
Even then I believe that
> GST isn't the right
> way to go as a whole since it makes us a lot less
> flexible in certain
> ways.
can you expand on that?
Basically I feel we should be looking forward
> ask ourselves how
> should a system be configured five years from now.
> Then again I look at
> printer configuration from the users perspective
> where I just want
> things to work without the user configuring
> anything. A good sysadmin
> tool is needed also but it must work seamlessly with
> the user tools. I
> have a bunch of ideas and wants for
> system-config-printer that I will
> post later. Colin Walters and I were discussing the
> whole printer mess
> with Jody from Novell at last years Gnome Summit and
> we came up with GUP
> (Grand Unified Printing) which I believe has a CVS
> module in Gnome but
> it kind of fizzled from there. Perhaps this is a
> good time to resurrect
> it and do all the work upstream.
yep. upstream cross distro tools was the kind of
approach I was talking about
=====
Regards
Rahul Sundaram
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