system-config-printer

Ronny Buchmann ronny-vlug at vlugnet.org
Wed Feb 2 18:43:11 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 02 February 2005 12:08, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:49 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:06:06PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:05:14PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > > The remaining design would be the sysadmin UI, primarily for
> > > > configuring a print *server*. There's a general problem here that we
> > > > need to define
> > >
> > > Don't forget an easy way to distribute configurations to client
> > > systems.
> >
> > That certainly was important before we switched to CUPS, but is it
> > now?  Doesn't browsing solve that problem?
>
> it would be nice if there was a zeroconf (or whatever that is called
> this week) thing that advertized a "I have the master printer list for
> cups HERE". All clients would then, without sysadmin work, use this
> list. List would include prefered printer etc etc
There needs to be a way to have some kind of favourite printers, always seeing 
a list with several hundred printers in corporate environment would be far 
from user friendly.

And I think many people are not in the lucky situation to have a CUPS print 
server.

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