New printer administration tool design for comments

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 12 février 2006 à 14:21 +0100, Arjan van de Ven a écrit :
> 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.

Especially since a dhcp hint is already documented in dhcp man pages,
except it's for lpr systems and useless in the brave new ipp world

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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