Another CUPS rant.-a little overboard
Tim Waugh
twaugh at redhat.com
Mon Sep 5 08:45:14 UTC 2005
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 08:01:10AM -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> Again an obvious point that can't be overlooked. You can't use the
> straight CUPS interface to configure printers if you don't have
> printer drivers available. system-config-printer has legacy drivers
> left over from its older incarnations so that program succeeds in
> configuring the Canon BJ-200.
No, this isn't really fair. They are not "legacy drivers" -- these
come from foomatic's database.
The thing that system-config-printer provides that the CUPS web
interface is foomatic integration, and this allows automatic (i.e. no
user intervention) set-up of locally-connection printers for local
use.
I have been saying for quite a while now that system-config-printer
needs re-writing so that it configures CUPS in a way that
inter-operates with CUPS' own web interface. Someone needs to do some
designing.
Tim.
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