New printer administration tool design for comments

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 23:24 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 18:30 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> >> A NEW PRINTER ADMINISTRATION TOOL
> >> =================================
> > 
> > 
> > what I'd like to see is a mechanism similar to automatic http proxy
> > discovery; eg allow for a "site configuration", which you pull down
> > automatic (say if dhcp points you at it) if you are in a certain
> > building at work, but not when you are at home (because then you want to
> > pull down another printer list from your local firewall box ;)
> > 
> 
> Yeah, getting off topic, this would be nice to have.  But maybe not in 
> our short printing time frame.
> 
> [ I've always wanted to have a dhcp hint to find a local public 
> directory server that exposes all these services. ]

it could be dhcp.. it could be network manager where you set a printer
settings thing per location profile. But bigger companies will really
need this, browsing sucks for them.